Clive Leo McNeir

Clive Leo McNeir is a British linguist, lexicographer, and author of a series of crime novels. As a director of The European Language Initiative,[1] he compiled and edited 12 dictionaries in 15 languages, the first one being published by Cassell in 1993.

Education

McNeir received a bachelor's degree in French and German from the Queen Mary University of London, where he studied from 1963 to 1967.

Personal life

He and his wife, cookery writer Cassandra, 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)
  • Beyond the Grave (2021)

References

  1. ^ "Gaelic spellchecker goes online". BBC News. 9 March 2006.


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