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Well, Charles, you can say how many you got right!

My score was three.

Three to beat, Charles - can you do it?

Splendid stuff, Darren!

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Yes, I can just see Messrs Hutchinson publishing that sort of material... This is certainly new to me, though I have seen some similar examples - described in the catalogue as 'lewd doggerel' - offered at auction about twenty-five years ago. You really are doing a splendid job Darren, unearthing hit...

Interesting news!

Could this be an excuse for another extra-curricular get-together for some of our serial Conventioneers?[font=Courier New] [/font]

No, not that pink financial daily, but the journal of strange phenomena. The latest (July) issue of Fortean Times includes an eight-page feature on Rollo Ahmed, which includes many references to (and quotes from) DW. The illustrations include that nice portrait of Joan and Dennis from 1933. Another ...

Dear KLP85, Sorry for the delay in replying to you, but I was abroad at the time you posted your comments. No, I hadn't been able to confirm the identity of the cover artist, so I'm most interested (and pleased) to learn that my guess was correct; Diana Younger's style at that time was certainly qui...

I have just returned from holiday, and amongst the post waiting for me were two parcels from Finland. Soon, therefore, I will be sending Charles images of two rather nice pictorial covers of Finnish editions of The Fabulous Valley and Uncharted Seas, which I hope he will be able to add to the websit...

Thanks Charles.

I'd love to be there, but I have a table tennis match and I don't think I'll be able to find anyone to substitute me.

Are you planning to attend?

If so, I trust you'll supply a report for us in due course...

All Best, Steve[font=Courier New] [/font]

Hi Darren, Interesting stuff indeed. I was aware that the serialisation of 'The Devil Rides Out' was 'abridged', so I suppose it follows that the other serialisations would be abridged too. As DW's novels were notoriously longer than the average for their day (or so he claimed), I suppose some editi...

Well Jim, I ordered on 2 December, and I'm still waiting! They've twice invited me to cancel my order.

Is it available direct from the publisher?[font=Courier New] [/font]

Lest it should pass unnoticed, here's to Dennis Wheatley's Birthday!

I hope all fans will raise a glass of something to DW tonight.

Every Good Wish to all Library members.

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For those who may be interested in another great author of thrillers, the current issue (Christmas) of Fortean Times (the journal of strange phenomena) has an article by Phil Baker about Sax Rohmer, the creator of the infamous criminal mastermind Fu Manchu. This coincides with the recent publication...

Never mind Charles, let's start a charitable fund, and look forward to the day when we can open a Dennis Wheatley Museum! [font=Times New Roman] [/font]

It would certainly be good to mark the anniversary in some way. I'd only really looked at one hundredth anniversaries before, but eighty years is a good excuse to celebrate a DW landmark such as that. Since our 'Centenary' Field Trip to Traben-Trarbach, I've been looking for other centenaries to mar...

[font=Times New Roman] [/font]Thanks for confirming that, Charles. Shock horror! I've just noticed that one of my Sixth Convention bookmarks has the wrong year upon it!!! Sorry everyone - I'll blame a computer error for that one. How very nice of you all not to mention it... Franklin suggested we mi...

Remembering Iwan Morelius once more on this, the date of his birth in 1931.

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