Laurence Meynell Bibliography

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Title   Date Issue Points - Notes Bluefeather Harrap 1928 US: 1928 Appleton Death's Eye Harrap 1929 US: 1929 Appleton as The Shadow and the Stone Camouflage Harrap 1930 US: 1930 Lippincott as Mystery at Newton Ferry Asking for Trouble Ward Lock 1931   Consummate Rose Hutchinson 1931   Storm Against the Wall Hutchinson 1931 US: 1931 Lippincott The House on the Cliff Hutchinson 1932 US: 1932 Lippincott Paid in Full Harrap 1933 US: 1933 Lippincott as Paid in Full Watch the Wall Harrap 1933 US: 1934 Lippincott as The Gentlemen Go By Odds on Bluefeather Harrap 1934 US: 1935 Lippincott Third Time Unlucky ! Harrap 1935   On the Night of the 18th Nicholson 1936 US: 1936 Harper The Door in the Wall Watson 1937 US: 1937 Harper The House in the Hills Nicholson 1937 US: 1938 Harper The Dandy Nicholson 1938   The Hut Watson 1938   His Aunt Came Late Nicholson 1939   And Be a Villain Watson 1939 Red cloth, black letters. DW 7/6 The Creaking Chair Collins 1941   The Dark Square Rest Same 1941   Strange Landing   1946   The Evil Hour   1947 Purple cloth, silver titles. Jacket 8/6 The Bright Face of Danger   1948   The Echo in the Cave Collins 1949   The Lady on Platform One   1950   Party of Eight   1950   The Man No One Knew   1951   The Frightened Man   1952   Danger Round the Corner Collins 1952   Too Clever by Half   1953   Give Me the Knife   1954   Where Is She Now ?   1955   Saturday Out   1956 US: 1962 Walker The Breaking Point   1957   One Step from Murder   1958   The Abandoned Doll Collins 1960   The House in Marsh Road   1960   The Pit in the Garden   1961   Virgin Luck   1963 US: 1964 Simon Schuster Sleep of the Unjust Collins 1963   More Deadly Than the Male Collins 1964   Double Fault Collins 1965   Die by the Book Collins 1966   The Mauve Front Door Collins 1967   Death of a Philanderer Collins 1968 US: 1969 Doubleday Of Malicious Intent Collins 1969   The Shelter Robert Hale 1970   The Curious Crime of Miss Julia Blossom Macmillan 1970   The End of the Long Hot Summer Robert Hale 1972   Death by Arrangement Macmillan 1972 US: 1972 McKay A Little Matter of Arson Macmillan 1972   A View from the Terrace Robert Hale 1972   The Fatal Flaw Macmillan 1973 US: 1978 Stein The Thirteen Trumpeters Macmillan 1973 US: 1978 Stein Day The Fortunate Miss East Robert Hale 1973 US: 1974 Coward McCann The Woman in Number Five Robert Hale 1974 US: 1975 Coward McCann as as Burlington Square The Fairly Innocent Little Man Macmillan 1974 US: 1977 Stein Day The Footpath Robert Hale 1975   Don't Stop for Hooky Hefferman Macmillan 1975 US: 1977 Stein Hooky and the Crock of Gold Macmillan 1975   The Lost Half Hour Macmillan 1976 US: 1977 Stein Hooky Gets the Wooden Spoon Macmillan 1977 US: 1977 Stein Papersnake Macmillan 1978   Hooky and the Villainous Chauffeur Macmillan 1979   Hooky and the Prancing Horse Macmillan 1980   Hooky Goes to Blazes Macmillan 1981   The Secret of the Pit Macmillan 1982   Silver Guilt Macmillan 1983    The Open Door Macmillan 1984   All page content © Classic Crime Fiction Further Information Laurence Meynell, born 1899, was incredibly prolific. This bibliography only includes the mystery fiction titles. Thee are at least as many again but of a non-criminous nature. His main series characters areGeorge Stanhope Berkeley and Hooky Hefferman. A Brief Appraisal Laurence Meynell, a prolific writer in many fields of fiction and non-fiction, may be said to have emerged properly as a crime writer only late in his career with ,4 View from the Terrace (1972). In the years since he has produced a regular flow of books which may be divided into two distinct sorts. There are the books that have no running hero but generally have some somewhat outre circumstance as their mainspring, and there is the series of charming and salty books that feature "Hooky" Hefferman, a character so well conceived that he lifts the works in which he appears into a class of their own. It is in these books that the typical Meynell tone of voice, which shows intermittently elsewhere when it is appropriate, comes into its own. Hooky is a man of the bars, and the Meynell voice is a voice heard in bars. But it must be understood what "a man of the bars" is. He is not a bar-fly, someone who can scarcely leave a bar. who cadges drinks and company. He is not, by a long chalk, a drunk. Though he likes drink and is somewhat of a connoisseur of it—Hooky usually drinks a Pimm's No. 1 himself—it is not for the drink alone that he finds bars attractive. It is for the conversation, that special brand of conversation confined to bars. Conversation in clubs and common rooms may sometimes be as worldly and sometimes more witty, but bar conversation is unique. So Hooky is most at home in the right sort of bar, and Meynell's characteristic voice is much the voice of bartalk. salty, man-of-the-world, sexy but not dirty, tolerant, with its standards. As to the time that Hooky does not spend in bars, he makes a living, rather a precarious one, as a classy private inquiry agent, having worked once on the edges of journalism

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