To date, these three pen names, which respectively cover mainstream, erotic, and women's fiction, neatly categorise and encompass all of his literary output.
[4] Under his birth name, Smith has written novels inspired by his more than twenty years experience in entertainment journalism.
These comprise his first three novels, I Must Confess, Fly on the Wall, and Service Wash, the latter inspired by the author's time working with a soap opera, EastEnders, on its 20th-anniversary book.
His fourth novel, Man's World, was about two gay men living fifty years apart in London, where each explores the "scene" of his time.
The Lear novels include Bildungsromans, such as The Palace of Varieties (about a man's introduction to the secret gay scene of 1930s London), and Golden Age detective stories, viz: his Mitch Mitchell series, about an American at Oxford University.