I read this in the 1967 John Long hardback edition. It really took me back in time to be reading a novel in large crown 8vo, a format that now seems to be reserved for "novelty" publications -- often to make a short novel look longer, as per some of the works of Nicholas Sparks. Of course, back i...
2012 Review:It was weird. I know, and distinctly recall the exact feeling, that I completely loved these men when I first read this long ago. I admired them and they were beyond cool and ingenious. I still think they’re ingenious. Thing is? I also think they are very probably in the wrong.They’re...
From BBC Radio 4 Extra:,Mr JG Reeder has the mind of a criminal, using it to uncover the peculiar circumstances surrounding a bank robbery, the death of the night-watchman and the part in the plot played by his beautiful daughter.This first story provides useful insight into the past of Mr JG Ree...
2012 Review:Short stories again. Mostly, but not entirely, consisting of more Leon antics.A little strange is the insistence that the three have now gone completely legit. As in, no more torturing and killing and stealing and kidnapping and all that fun stuff. Because supposedly Manfred promised ...