His debut novel
Royal Murdoch (1962) was the first of what is called his Linden Trilogy, set in the fictional small British Columbia town of Linden. The other two novels in the trilogy were
A Gift of Echoes (1965) and
Scann. His later novels were
Making Arrangements (1978),
Paul Nolan (1983),
Felice: A Travelogue (1985),
The Saxophone Winter (1988) and
Necessary Dark (2002). He was also the writer of the screenplay for
Larry Kent's 1965 film
When Tomorrow Dies. In 2001, he was presented with a lifetime achievement award by the
Vancouver Public Library and
BC Bookworld. In the 2000s, with all of his novels out of print, he republished them all through
Xlibris. ==References==