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Further Information - Elleston Trevor Biography
Originally named Trevor Dudley Smith, 17 February 1920 – 21 July 1995, he was a prolific author with numerous pseudonyms probably most notably Adam Hall
which he used to pen espionage-spy thrillers which met with some success.
Sample from The Immortal Error
" IF ever the Devil walked the earth," said Myers softly, " he's walking now-
" And he's just left the club to get a taxi," said Smaile.
I felt uncomfortable, and twiddled my glass with a pretence of terrific concentration on that trivial trick ; no one spoke for a second or two, but in that second several embarrassing things had been thought, and most of us wished that we had not decided to come along to the club for an hour after all. I glanced quickly across to Myers, his face was slightly flushed—not from the one whisky he had had since he had come in half an hour ago—it was a flush of annoyance. I was sorry for Myers. That ridiculous crack of Smaile's
had made the breech—it had served no purpose, it had been, if anything,
in bad taste. Myers had been indulging in mild exaggeration, yes : but
in the circumstances it was not out of place. Martin, the man who had
just left the club to get a taxi home, was pretty low—even I thought
there was something of Satan in him, and I was perhaps the least
vindictive in our little circle round the fireplace. Before I really
knew what I was doing, I was attempting to relieve the situation. Just
where I got the words from, I can't for a moment guess ; the fact
remains that I was suddenly hearing myself talking, in that well-known
placatory tone which my friends know I adopt in such circumstances as
this one. " Do you think that there is a Devil incarnate, Burns—
seriously, I mean
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