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Tag Archives: Edgar Wallace

Imperial fiction: Golden Age detection 3

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Imperial fiction: Golden Age detection 3

Posted on 2 May 2020 by Alwyn Turner • 1 Comment

ALWYN TURNER reads some detective novels from the 1930s. Continue reading →

Imperial fiction: Golden Age detection 1

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Imperial fiction: Golden Age detection 1

Posted on 28 March 2020 by Alwyn Turner • Leave a comment

ALWYN TURNER reads some interwar detective novels by Agatha Christie and Margery Allingham. Continue reading →

Imperial fiction: Mr Clutterbuck’s Election

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Imperial fiction: Mr Clutterbuck’s Election

Posted on 6 May 2018 by Alwyn Turner • 1 Comment

Hilaire Belloc’s political satire from 1908 still works, says ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading →

Imperial fiction: Penny Plain

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Imperial fiction: Penny Plain

Posted on 15 April 2018 by Alwyn Turner • Leave a comment

ALWYN TURNER on a 1920 novel by Anna Buchan, aka O. Douglas. Continue reading →

Imperial fiction: Jim Maitland

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Imperial fiction: Jim Maitland

Posted on 21 March 2018 by Alwyn Turner • Leave a comment

ALWYN TURNER goes back to 1923 to read about Sapper’s other great hero. Continue reading →

Imperial fiction: Sanders of the River

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Imperial fiction: Sanders of the River

Posted on 9 March 2018 by Alwyn Turner • 1 Comment

ALWYN TURNER on Edgar Wallace’s cynical tales of colonial administration from 1911. Continue reading →

Imperial fiction: Lower than Vermin

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Imperial fiction: Lower than Vermin

Posted on 10 February 2018 by Alwyn Turner • 5 Comments

ALWYN TURNER on Dornford Yates (beloved of both Michael Gove and Mark Gatiss) and his 1950 novel of lost England. Continue reading →

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