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Jack Adrian (1) (1945–)

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Pilgrimage to Hell (1986) 210 exemplaren
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 02 (2006) — Auteur — 202 exemplaren
Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (1995) — Redacteur — 183 exemplaren
Strange Tales From the Strand (1991) — Redacteur — 109 exemplaren
Detective Stories from the Strand (1991) — Redacteur — 100 exemplaren
The Oxford Book of Historical Stories (1994) — Redacteur — 40 exemplaren
Twelve Tales of Murder (1998) — Redacteur — 17 exemplaren
Sexton Blake Wins (1986) 16 exemplaren
The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 1997 (1997) — Redacteur — 15 exemplaren
Annual Macabre 1998 (1998) — Redacteur — 14 exemplaren
The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 1999 (1999) — Redacteur — 14 exemplaren
The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2002 (2002) — Redacteur — 14 exemplaren
The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2001 (2001) — Redacteur — 10 exemplaren
The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2000 (2000) — Redacteur — 10 exemplaren
Crime at Christmas : A Seasonal Box of Murderous Delights (1988) — Redacteur — 7 exemplaren
2000 AD Presents No. 15 — Auteur — 3 exemplaren
The Blood of Dracula (1977) 3 exemplaren

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My grandfather used to tell us kids (grandchildren) adventure stories. Our favourite stories were about the explorers, Jack Sam and Pete though Pop varied the diet....depending on what he happened to be reading at the moment ...and somewhat on his memory of reading Penny Dreadfuls in London. We loved these stories ...even if they came with the occasional inconsistency .....and constantly pestered him for another story. I recall that one of his sequence of stories was about "Sexton Blake". I'd certainly heard of Sherlock Holmes and before I was about 14 I had read various anthologies of Sherlock Holmes stories. But I'd never actually come across a Sexton Blake story....so, when I saw this at a pretty good price at Berkelow's, I bought it. And I've not been disappointed. I learned that the Sexton Blake stories were written by a whole host of different writers and were just churned out for the various weekly newspapers or magazines. Some were written as full length novels. They modelled themselves on the sleuth of Baker Street.....and, in fact, Sexton Blake even moved into Baker Street. This particular collection has nine stories and I've just read four of them,: sufficient to give me a pretty good idea of the calibre and style of the genre. Yes....pretty much like Pop's stories.....racy, full of action and surprises, Somewhat devoid of overriding moral principles ....apart from "crime does not pay".....and even the most cunning of villains was no match, in the end, for Sexton Blake and Tinker. (Both Tinker and my grandfather seemed to share a common heritage in Cockney London).
The style is overwrought with adjectives viz:`"The solicitor's companion was a spare, angular man, dressed in dark clothes of old-fashioned cut". But they are great stories. I found myself reading them at great pace and more or less unable to put them down. the formula is the same as in Sherlock Holmes:.....some mysterious happenings, impossible to see the connections until Sexton Blake comes on the scene and starts to apply his analytical genius. All is revealed in the last few paragraphs....how the villains did it and how they are brought to justice. Frequent violence and the use of revolvers. I found myself, wondering how they would be able to do that in England....leaving bodies and wounded behind them and travelling internationally with their weapons. But, hey! this is escapism not an essay in logic.
I enjoyed the stories that I read. But four was enough. I now see where Pop was able to draw on his misspent youth reading penny dreadfuls (he left home at 14 and went to sea.....never returning to the family home....... for the last 60 years of his life, anyway)......and produce such wonderful adventure stories for us kids. It's not great literature but it is fun: Four stars from me.
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booktsunami | 1 andere bespreking | Oct 17, 2023 |
The variety in this book was the greatest thing. Growing up on the Sherlock Holmes stories as the primary source for my mysteries, with a few Poirots and Nero Wolfes thrown in, I had a specific idea of the formulation of a detective story: The mystery is presented, the detective goes to solve the problem, and while this collection did of course have a few that followed that form, including a Sherlock and a Father Brown, it also had other stories which fit the category rather less squarely. The Ministering Angel was the first of these, a story of a woman married to a man she hounded because she wanted his money after he diedā€”what a classic motive, Iā€™m discovering, and such a rampant trope, although for stories in this book, theyā€™re written so early as to be, perhaps, the ones that built the trope.
Not Guilty is a story about a woman who gets away with murder, as is The Idolā€™s Eye, and The Perfect Crime and The Intruder are about people who get caught doing crimes, although not by people who are detectives in particular. Cast-Iron Alibi is about someone who very nearly gets away with it, including a police detective who very narrowly doesnā€™t solve the case, which is a refreshing turn.
Huxleyā€™s A Deal in Old Masters is simply about a skillful fake art trafficker, although maybe skillful is an overstatement. Itā€™s really just about an art salesman passing off a fake to a rube who doesnā€™t know any better, which kind of annoyed me to have in this collection when I read it. But then again Huxley usually strikes me as overblown.
A few more little stories of hoaxes follow, and then tales of murder with little twists but no detectives. Last, a few Sherlocks by Doyle and one by Knox.
In all, an interesting and good collection of detective stories that sparked a hunger (which I have, alas, continued with Agatha Christie remake movies from the library via hoopla rather than continuing getting through my books...) But thankfully I have a couple more books, a Victorian detective anthology, a Nero Wolfe anthology and a novel-length mystery, to satisfy me after I finish a couple of the books I just picked up this weekend.
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et.carole | 2 andere besprekingen | Jul 13, 2022 |
This slender volume of ghost stories, an annual tradition issued by Canadian Ash-Tree Press for several years, was quite good as well as interesting. The theme was authors who rarely, or never wrote ghost stories and certainly weren't known, except for Buchan, for their macabre output. These are all stories of the "classic" Jamesian nature only marred by an over-reliance on the unnecessary "club tale" as a framing device, probably an artifact of each author's unfamiliarity of writing in the genre.

Still an interesting little volume with a nice introduction and good story notes.
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Gumbywan | Jun 24, 2022 |
The topic is plagiarism, intentional and otherwise. The editor gives some of the authors the benefit of the doubt, but in some cases, Agatha Christie for instance, a notorious plagiarist AND recycler of her own oeuvre, he gives no excuses to. These stories run from the better known to the, in some cases, deservedly obscure.

The fare is the usual Ash Tree fare but the stories are generally quite better than the usual.. Nothing is newer than 1945 and most are late nineteenth to the first third of the twentieth century.

The editor is a delight and a real wit. Get out the dictionary though.

Loses one star for cheapness in not including the [a:Arthur Conan Doyle|2448|Arthur Conan Doyle|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1495008883p2/2448.jpg], [a:Agatha Christie|123715|Agatha Christie|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1589991473p2/123715.jpg], and [a:Daphne du Maurier|2001717|Daphne du Maurier|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1422444467p2/2001717.jpg] stories, forcing you to look them up elsewhere (they didnā€™t want to pay the royalties). Fortunately most of these you will have read before. The only one I hadnā€™t read was the Christie, whom I despise.

An unusually lengthy annual for Ash Tree. It was sadly their last.

I just edited this. Iā€™m not sure whether to blame auto fill or operator. Really looses for loses!
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