Ann Cleeves Ann Cleeves Ann Cleeves (born 1954) is an English crime-writer. In 2006 she won the inaugural Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the richest crime-writing prize in the world, for her novel "Raven Black". Cleeves studied English at Sussex University but dropped out. She then took up various jobs including cook, auxiliary coastguard, probation officer, library outreach worker and child care officer. She lives in Whitley Bay, and is widowed with two daughters. The Vera Stanhope novels have been dramatized as the TV detective series "Vera" and the Jimmy Perez novels as the series "Shetland". In 2014 Cleeves was awarded an Honorary Doctorate
Alias Jimmy Valentine (radio program) Alias Jimmy Valentine (radio program) Alias Jimmy Valentine is an old-time radio crime drama in the United States. It was broadcast on NBC-Blue January 18, 1938 - February 27, 1939. The concept for "Alias Jimmy Valentine" came from writer O. Henry in his short story A Retrieved Reformation. That story was adapted into the 1910 play "Alias Jimmy Valentine" by Paul Armstrong. The program's stories focused on Lee Randall, described by Jim Cox in his book, "Radio Crime Fighters: More Than 300 Programs from the Golden Age" as "an ex-con and reformed safecracker [who] applied his talents and enormous underworld