Francis Beeding (1885–1944)
Author of Death Walks in Eastrepps
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Pen name of co-authors Hilary St. George Saunders and John Palmer. So please don't combine this page with either of theirs.
Image credit: A portrait of author Hilary St George Saunders at his flat in Camden Hill, London.
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Works by Francis Beeding
Hell Let Loose 6 copies
Eleven Were Brave 3 copies
The One Sane Man 2 copies
The erring under-secretary 1 copy
Black Arrows 1 copy
The emerald clasp 1 copy
The Woman He Had to Kill 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1885-09-04
- Date of death
- 1944-08-04
- Gender
- male
- Country (for map)
- UK
- Birthplace
- Paddington, London, England, UK
- Short biography
- John Leslie Palmer, an English author who, under his own name wrote extensively about early English actors and about British literary figures. He also wrote fiction under the collaborative pseudonyms Francis Beeding, Christopher Haddon, David Pilgrim and John Somers.
As "Francis Beeding", he and Hilary Saint George Saunders co-authored The House of Dr. Edwardes. The novel was later used as the basis for the Hitchcock film Spellbound.
The Beeding pseudonym was kept secret from its start in 1920, until in 1925 Saunders delivered a lecture about his writing methods, as Francis Beeding, while Palmer heckled for the audience. Saunders invited Palmer to the platform, and the dual authorship was revealed. - Disambiguation notice
- Pen name of co-authors Hilary St. George Saunders and John Palmer. So please don't combine this page with either of theirs.
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A serial killer is on the loose, terrorizing a small resort town in East Anglia, and the police are having a great deal of difficulty catching the killer; in the meantime, the man that perpetrated a notorious swindle nearly a generation before (which ruined many in that town), is conducting a clandestine affair in that town, and you know it won't end well for him. The book has some interesting characters, and some very good set-pieces, like the trial sequence and a fascinating interlude on the floor of the House of Commons. The negative is that the solution does "clank" a bit, and even with the detailed explanation at the end (no suicide, here: the killer is hung), it doesn't completely satisfy. Still, on balance, an interesting read. (Worthy of note: a war relic is of some importance in the book, and one of the authors, Saunders, fought on the Western Front in World War I and likely was familiar with the weapon.)… (more)
Corresponding to the regular clandestine visits of a man to a married woman, a serial killer appears to _target the victims who lost money in a venture. The whole town becomes fearful with regular patrols of the street. On the night of one such venture, an up-and-coming Scotland Yard sergeant makes an arrest. The evidence, while circumstantial, appears solid to those reviewing the rest. While the man admits to other crimes, he denies the murders. I spotted the solution pretty early in the novel, but the author did a pretty good job at making readers who came to that conclusion second-guess themselves. This classic golden age mystery provides readers with an interesting case.… (more)
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- Rating
- 3.6
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It's a decent read, with a villain group that sort of precursors bad guy groups like SMERSH and SPECTRE. I'm not sure why Mr. Quexter is able to do all of the things he does in this book, but it isn't the first time a character has been misidentified and is still able to fulfill the abilities needed in that 'new' identify! And it was published in 1926, so I will cut it a little bit of slack...
Fun 'fact' - this book is NOT 4 pages! It is 320 pages! Just so you know!… (more)