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Date |
Issue Points - Notes |
| A Count of Six |
Collins |
1948 |
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| Shadow Play |
Collins |
1949 |
Purple cloth, silver titles. DW 8/6 |
| Spot the Lady |
Collins |
1950 |
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| Still of Night |
Collins |
1952 |
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| The Black Casket |
Collins |
1953 |
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| The Big M |
Robert Hale |
1973 |
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Further Information
Lester Powell, born 1912 had one main series character,
Philip Odell. was born in London 36 years ago. After the traditional
literary apprenticeship of the drapery shop, the chicken farm and the
draughtman's office, he became a film scenario-writer. He served with
the R.A.M.C. in France during the early part of the war and was
invalided out after Dunkirk. Then followed a period when he worked as a
-reporter on the News Chronicle, Sunday Pictorial and Daily Express and
also broadcast regularly in the B.B.C.'s Overseas and European Services.
Lester Powell is well known to listeners as a radio dramatist. His first
novel, A Count of Six, was published last year.
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