David Roberts (novelist)

David Roberts (1944 – 18 December 2025) was an English editor and novelist.

Roberts worked for several years as a book editor at Chatto and Windus, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and Michael O'Mara Books. Since 2000, he had been a full-time writer, best known for a series of crime novels set during the late 1930s, and featuring the joint adventures of Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne. The novels use actual historical events as a backdrop and there is an Author's Note at the back of the books briefly outlining what happened to the historical characters subsequently.

Publishers Weekly described his novels as "well-researched" and "first-rate fun".^[1][2]

He died aged 81 on 18 December 2025.^[3]