Background

Marshall Browne was born on November 27, 1935, in Melbourne, Australia. He was a son of Leigh Browne, a banker, and Madeline (Marshall) Browne.

Marshall Browne’s family has lived in Australia for six generations. His ancestor, an Irish-Persian merchant from Calcutta (present-day Kolkata), arrived in Sydney, Australia, in 1809, and bought grazing land near Cabramatta. He was granted other land by then-governor Macquarie and became a merchant and grazier, as well as one of the founders of Australia’s first bank, the Bank of New South Wales.

Career

In the 1950's, Marshall served as a commando in the Australian forces and as a paratrooper in the British forces. Between 1974 and 1981, he acted as a banker and was based in Hong Kong. From 1982 till 1995, Browne continued working as a banker, dividing his time between Brisbane, London, Melbourne and Bhutan.

Browne began writing novels in his spare time. His first three novels were set in the Far East. The most successful one was "City of Masks".

Achievements

• Marshall Browne was an Australian former banker and well-known author of several books. His best-known works include "City of Masks" (1981), "The Gilded Cage" (1996), "The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders" (1999), "The Burnt City" (1999) and "Rendezvous at Kamakura Inn" (2005).
  
  Browne received several awards, including the My Brother Jack Short Story Award for "Point of Departure, Point of Return" in 1999 and Ned Kelly Award for "The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders" (1999). Also, in 2002, he was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for "The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders" (1999), as well as in 2006, for the Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing for "Rendezvous at Kamakura Inn" (2005).

Works

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  • The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders

    (Inspector Anders of the Rome Police force became a nation...)

    1999
  • Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools

    (Across Europe, a terrorist group, opposed to globalizatio...)

    2001
  • Rendezvous At Kamakura Inn

    (Tokyo Detective Aoki is devastated, when influence and po...)

    2005
  • City of Masks 1981
  • Dark Harbour 1984
  • The Eye of The Abyss 2002
  • The gilded cage 1996
  • The Burnt City 1999
  • The Trumpeting Angel 2001
  • Inspector Anders and the Blood Vendetta 2006
  • Point of Departure, Point of Return 2003

Membership

Marshall was a fellow of the Bankers' Institute of Australia, CPA Australia (formerly Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants) and Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.

Connections

Marshall married Merell Browne, an interior designer, on June 11, 1960. Their marriage produced one child - Justine.

Father:

Leigh Browne

Mother:

Madeline (Marshall) Browne

child:

Justine Browne

Wife:

Merell Browne