ALWYN TURNER reads some detective novels from the 1930s. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Edgar Wallace
Imperial fiction: Golden Age detection 1
ALWYN TURNER reads some interwar detective novels by Agatha Christie and Margery Allingham. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Mr Clutterbuck’s Election
Hilaire Belloc’s political satire from 1908 still works, says ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Penny Plain
ALWYN TURNER on a 1920 novel by Anna Buchan, aka O. Douglas. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Jim Maitland
ALWYN TURNER goes back to 1923 to read about Sapper’s other great hero. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Sanders of the River
ALWYN TURNER on Edgar Wallace’s cynical tales of colonial administration from 1911. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Lower than Vermin
ALWYN TURNER on Dornford Yates (beloved of both Michael Gove and Mark Gatiss) and his 1950 novel of lost England. Continue reading