Clive Leo McNeir
Clive Leo McNeir is a linguist and lexicographer, and author of a half-dozen crime novels, set mainly on the inland waterways of Britain. As director of The European Language Initiative,[1] he compiled and edited 12 dictionaries in 15 languages, including English, since the first one was published by Cassell in 1993.
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Education
McNeir got a bachelor's degree in French and German from Queen Mary University of London, where he studied from 1963 to 1967.
Personal life
He and his wife, cookery writer Cassandra McNeir, live in a 300-year-old cottage in rural Northamptonshire.
Bibliography
- Dictionaries and reference works
- Cassell Multilingual Dictionary of Local Government and Business: The European Language Initiative
- Geiriadur Terminoleg Trefniadaeth: Dictionary of Procedural Terms (1999)
- Thesaurus of the Gaelic Language (2011)
- Crime novels
Marnie Walker Series
- Getaway with murder (2000)
- Death in Little Venice (2001)
- Kiss and Tell (2003)
- Devil in the Detail (2004)
- No Secrets (2006)
- Sally Ann's Summer (2007)
- Smoke and Mirrors (2009)
- Gifthorse (2011)
- Stick in the mud (2012)
- Smoke without fire (2015)
- Witching hour (2017)
- To have and to Hold (2019)
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