Well, another interesting tidbit !
I'd always thought that QUIVER and SHAFT were simply compiled from the earlier CENTURY OF HORROR STORIES (then long out of print), with no new material.
I shall have to investigate Sir Charles, who had quite an active second career...
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- Mon 10 Apr, 2006 13:01:52
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Christine Campbell Thomson: "I Am A Literary Agent"
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- Sun 9 Apr, 2006 02:51:33
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Wheatley's best book/short story/series
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My favorite series is the Modern Musketeers, the Duke and his friends. I think THE DEVIL RIDES OUT was my first Wheatley, followed closely by THE FORBIDDEN TERRITORY. I didn't read THREE INQUISITIVE PEOPLE until much later, as DW books were harder to come by in the U.S. THE GOLDEN SPANIARD is tied w...
- Thu 9 Mar, 2006 23:09:31
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: DW's bookplate
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- Mon 27 Feb, 2006 00:08:45
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Craig Cabell's book on DW
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Having read the Express piece, it seems less a review than a synopsis of the book. As Bob says, the book itself seems less an original work than a combination of STRANGER THAN FICTION and THE DECEPTION PLANNERS. But with both of those out of print, that's not so terrible, I guess, if it renews inter...
- Tue 21 Feb, 2006 01:22:19
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: DW's bookplate
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- Thu 16 Feb, 2006 00:23:16
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Were any novels adapted for TV/ radio?
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It migjht be appropriate to mention here the two abridgements of DW novels done as audiobooks: THE DEVIL RIDES OUT, read by Anton Rodgers THE HAUNTING OF TOBY JUGG, read by Denholm Eliot My cassettes are 25 years old, and probably don't even play any more; I don't imagine these have been transferred...
- Thu 5 Jan, 2006 01:14:07
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: "Sex, Jingoism & Black Magic"
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- Thu 15 Dec, 2005 02:15:51
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Seasonal Greetings
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- Wed 23 Nov, 2005 00:17:23
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Wheatley's worst book
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DW's Worst Novel
I'm putting in my bid for THE MAN WHO MISSED THE WAR. When I read it, this book felt very slapdash, with a rushed ending. I haven't read LINDA LEE yet, but I thought MISSED was worse than the other two nominees. YMMV
- Thu 3 Nov, 2005 02:51:59
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Historical Correctness
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7637
A reply!
Wow! I got a message tonight from Angus Clarke (deputy editor, the Times Register) who says: << I spoke to the person who wrote the obituary--someone who knew Pearsall extremely well--and received the following by reply: "What I understand is that there was a particular detective-hero of Wheatl...
- Thu 3 Nov, 2005 00:02:55
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Historical Correctness
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7637
- Sun 30 Oct, 2005 15:39:57
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: BBC FOUR TV: The Lost Decade
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"The Letter"
I was just looking at The Letter again. In only the second paragraph, DW writes: << Yet our present monarch being just over 50, and in good health with a normal prospect of another 25 years of life, many people would lay heavy odds against his daughter, or any other member of his family, ever being ...
- Sun 30 Oct, 2005 01:49:52
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Historical Correctness
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7637
That's astonishing. There *weren't* any Wheatley thrillers published after his death, only the final volume of the autobiography, if I remember rightly. Aren't there any fact-checkers at The Times? Wheatley's family and Hutchinson certainly would have every right to demand a retraction! I've written...
- Wed 19 Oct, 2005 13:17:57
- Forum: October 2005 Rules Change
- Topic: New 'member-postings' rules
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- Sun 18 Sep, 2005 15:35:55
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: General Questions
- Replies: 22
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