Former Daily Mail writer Shaun Usher, who later found success as a prolific writer of crime fiction, has died aged 88. In 1980 he secured an exclusive interview with the dying Shah of Iran, then living in exile in Panama. His father Gray worked on local papers (father and son later collaborated on an anthology of ghost stories) and Shaun's son Peter was to follow him to Fleet Street. When, years later, Peter was appointed an executive, Shaun liked to complain: 'Can life get any worse – my son is now my boss.' Former Daily Mail writer Shaun Usher, who later found success as a prolific writer of crime fiction, has died aged 88When the Sketch merged with the Daily Mail he moved across to the Mail where he soon became television correspondent.