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Date |
Issue Points - Notes |
| The Siren and the Centaur |
Langdon |
1947 |
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| The Barber's wife |
Arthur Barker |
1953 |
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| Alone in the Grass |
Arthur Barker |
1954 |
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| Shadow Play |
As Above |
1954 |
Blue cloth-gilt. DW 9/6 |
| Walk in the Dark |
As Above |
1955 |
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| Cry of the Dingo |
As Above |
1956 |
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| Sunny Draper |
As Above |
1956 |
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| Dolls with Sad Faces |
Arthur Barker |
1957 |
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| The Empty Cot |
As Above |
1958 |
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| The Unrepentent |
Arthur Barker |
1958 |
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Author's Note
THE idea of the great mail bag
robbery in this novel was inspired by the mail van hold-up in 1951 when
about £270,000 in soiled currency was stolen by gangsters off Oxford
Street, London.
I knew a lot about that one. I covered it for a national newspaper. They
never convicted anybody for it. The big snag was of course evidence.
It's one thing to know who commits a crime and how they did it. But it's
another thing to convict them. Scotland Yard is always up against this
bogey. . . .
I am pretty well known in " postal circles." The Postmaster General has
good reason to remember my name. I was the newspaperman who " broke"
into a London Post Office depot twice in January 1954 and in February of
that year the Sunday Chronicle gave me another assignment to " steal" a
mail van. And incidentally I was the newspaperman whom Colonel Marcus
Lipton told the House of Commons in January 1954 had wandered around the
Mount Pleasant depot unchallenged. ...
" SHADOW PLAY " should give the Post Office security people something to
think about. ... If only how thieves might organize a theft. |
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