Re: AR's 'silly books' ?


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on March 09, 2009 at 11:13:46 user PeterC.

In Reply to: Re: AR's 'silly books' ? posted by John Lambert on March 09, 2009 at 08:29:59:

Supercharged as I am about the theme of sanctuaries, there's another one - Scotland Yard.

Oh yes, definitely. The illustration in BS, JC 1948, p201, 'Scotland Yard' haunted me for years. I wanted to be there. I see that at some stage I coloured it in- in fact I coloured a great number of the BS illustrations.

I think that AR much enjoyed writing a 'police procedural'. Also, writing a bit under the gun in 1939/40, it generated a good slab of reliable story which, with all the other distractions of the time, must have made his working life easier.

And the account of Pete and Dick in the darkroom is a classic. Mysterious, dark, red (easy to colour in, that one). Even in the locust years after childhood when I read, mostly, WE Johns, then John Dos Passos, then Jack Kerouac, but little Ransome, that scene has always remained vivid.


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