John Malcolm Andrews (born 21 August 1936) is an English author on antiques, journalist and crime writer, engineering businessman and author – as John Malcolm – of the Tim Simpson series of art crime novels,[1] author as John Andrews of the first Price Guide to Antique Furniture (1968) and Managing Editor of Antique Collecting magazine.
[2] Born in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, the son of May (née Whiteley) and Ernest Andrews, an engineer,[3] John Andrews was educated at Sale High School in Manchester[4] and The British Schools of Montevideo (1946–1950), before returning to England as a boarder at Bedford Modern School (1950–1955), and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he read Engineering and was Captain of the Lady Margaret Boat Club.
He went on to write a total of fifteen of the Tim Simpson series of crime novels plus two more with different central characters.
He was Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association from 1994–5[5][7] and wrote a number of short stories.
Nevinson, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Camille Pissarro, Whistler, Winslow Homer, Vincent van Gogh and John Singer Sargent.