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She Fell Among Thieves
''She Fell Among Thieves'' is a 1935 adventure novel by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), the fifth in his ' Chandos' thriller series. It was serialised in ''Woman's Journal'' (December 1934 to April 1935, illustrated by Forster). The title comes from a phrase in the Parable of the Good Samaritan. Plot The story is set in the Pyrenees. Chandos, recently widowed, and Mansel have to rescue a drugged young woman who has been held captive at Château Jezreel by the villainous elderly matriarch Vanity Fair. Background ''She Fell Among Thieves'' was written shortly after Mercer's second marriage, to Elizabeth, and was dedicated "To Jill" – the name he always used for her. Critical reception The novel was not quite as well received as the earlier 'Chandos' books had been. Although it was accepted for UK serialisation in the ''Woman's Journal'', appearing in five parts between December 1934 and April 1935, the US '' Saturday Evening Post'' declined it, ...
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Dornford Yates
Cecil William Mercer (7 August 1885 – 5 March 1960), known by his pen name Dornford Yates, was an English writer and novelist whose novels and short stories, some humorous (the ''Berry'' books), some Thriller (genre), thrillers (the ''Chandos'' books), were best-sellers during the Interwar period, Interwar Period. The pen name ''Dornford Yates'', first in print in 1910, resulted from combining the maiden names of his grandmothers – the paternal Eliza Mary Dornford, and the maternal Harriet Yates. Early life William (Bill) Mercer was born in Walmer, Kent, the son of Cecil John Mercer (1850–1921) and Helen Wall (1858–1918). His father was a solicitor whose sister, Mary Frances, married Charles Augustus Munro; their son was Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (the writer Saki); Bill Mercer is said to have idolised his elder cousin. Mercer attended St Clare preparatory school in Walmer from 1894 to 1899. The family moved from Kent to London when he joined Harrow School as a day pupil ...
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Hodder And Stoughton
Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette. History Early history The firm has its origins in the 1840s, with Matthew Hodder's employment, aged 14, with Messrs Jackson and Walford, the official publisher for the Congregational Union. In 1861 the firm became Jackson, Walford and Hodder; but in 1868 Jackson and Walford retired, and Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton joined the firm, creating Hodder & Stoughton. Hodder & Stoughton published both religious and secular works, and its religious list contained some progressive titles. These included George Adam Smith's ''Isaiah'' for its ''Expositor’s Bible'' series, which was one of the earliest texts to identify multiple authorship in the Book of Isaiah. There was also a sympathetic ''Life of St Francis'' by Paul Sabatier, a French Protestant pastor. Matthew Hodder made frequent visits to North America, meeting with the Moody Press and making links with Scribners and Fleming H. Revell. The s ...
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Fire Below
''Fire Below'' is a 1930 adventure novel by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), the fourth in his '' Chandos'' thriller series and a sequel to ''Blood Royal''. The book was published in the US under the title ''By Royal Command''. Plot Chandos and Hanbury are lured back to the fictional Principality of Riechtenburg by a forged telegram. Background In this novel, the author continued to mine ideas from Anthony Hope, specifically ''Rupert of Hentzau''. Commenting in 1958 through his character Boy Pleydell, Mercer acknowledged resemblances between his work and that of Hope, particularly mentioning ''Fire Below'' and ''Blood Royal''. Critical reception The ''Chandos'' series had made the name of Dornford Yates widely known, and ''Fire Below'' was as received as eagerly when it appeared in June 1930 as his earlier ''Chandos'' books had been. The original dustjacket included the following quotes - * Frank Swinnerton in the ''Evening News'' - "It is treme ...
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An Eye For A Tooth
''An Eye for a Tooth'' is a 1943 adventure novel by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), the sixth in his 'List of works by Dornford Yates, Chandos' thriller series. The events of the story immediately follow those of ''Blind Corner (novel), Blind Corner''. Plot On the way home in the car with the treasure from ''Blind Corner (novel), Blind Corner'', Mansel nearly runs over the corpse of a murdered man. He discovers the murderers, and seeks vengeance. Background The novel's denouement may have been suggested by Christopher Marlowe's play ''The Jew of Malta'' in which most of the characters die after being deposited by a pivoting floor into a vat of boiling oil. AJ Smithers, the author's biographer, commented, "Mercer dispensed with the oil, but the principle was the same." Critical reception The novel was well received, sold well, and had to be reprinted six times within a year of publication. References Bibliography

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List Of Works By Dornford Yates
Dornford Yates was the pseudonym of the English novelist Cecil William Mercer (7 August 1885 – 5 March 1960), whose novels and short stories, some humorous tales (the 'Berry' books) and some serious thrillers (the 'Chandos' books), were best-sellers in the period between the First and Second World Wars. This categorization of Yates's books is based on the list that appears in his last published work, ''B-Berry and I Look Back''. All are full-length novels except where noted. Almost all of the tales in the short story collections were also published separately, often in slightly different form and with different titles in ''The Windsor Magazine'': see the corresponding book article for details. __TOC__ 'Berry' books The 'Berry' books are comic novels and short stories narrated in the first person by Boy Pleydell. They feature the family group of Berry Pleydell (Boy's cousin), Daphne Pleydell (Boy's sister and Berry's wife), Jonathan 'Jonah' Mansel (Boy's cousin) and Jill ...
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Woman's Journal (British Magazine)
''Woman's Journal'' was a monthly British magazine primarily targeted towards women readers, published from November 1927 to 2001.Woman's Journalhas resurrected in the UK aThe Women's Journalin 2023. The Women's Journal UK is a new online feminist magazine by women, for women - relaunched to readdreswomen's issuesat a time when there has been many steps backwards for women worldwide. Editors * Ailsa Garland (1965–1970) * Marcelle d'Argy Smith (1997–1999) * Elsa McAlonan (1999–2001) References Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom Defunct women's magazines published in the United Kingdom Magazines established in 1927 Magazines disestablished in 2001 {{italic title ...
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Parable Of The Good Samaritan
The parable of the Good Samaritan is told by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. It is about a traveler (implicitly understood to be Jewish) who is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left half dead alongside the road. First, a Jewish priest and then a Levite come by, but both avoid the man. Finally, a Samaritan happens upon the traveler. Although Samaritans and Jews despised each other, the Samaritan helps the injured man. Jesus is described as telling the parable in response to a provocative question from a lawyer, "And who is my neighbor?", in the context of the Great Commandment. The conclusion is that the neighbor figure in the parable is the one who shows mercy to their fellow man. Some Christians, such as Augustine, have interpreted the parable allegorically, with the Samaritan representing Jesus Christ, who saves the sinful soul. Others, however, discount this allegory as unrelated to the parable's original meaning and see the parable as exemplifying the ethics of Jesus. The p ...
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Pyrenees
The Pyrenees (; es, Pirineos ; french: Pyrénées ; ca, Pirineu ; eu, Pirinioak ; oc, Pirenèus ; an, Pirineus) is a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain. It extends nearly from its union with the Cantabrian Mountains to Cap de Creus on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast. It reaches a maximum altitude of at the peak of Aneto. For the most part, the main crest forms a divide between Spain and France, with the microstate of Andorra sandwiched in between. Historically, the Crown of Aragon and the Kingdom of Navarre extended on both sides of the mountain range. Etymology In Greek mythology, Pyrene (mythology), Pyrene is a princess who eponym, gave her name to the Pyrenees. The Greek historiography, Greek historian Herodotus says Pyrene is the name of a town in Celts, Celtic Europe. According to Silius Italicus, she was the virgin daughter of Bebryx, a king in Narbonensis, Mediterranean Gaul by whom the hero Hercules was given hospitality during his ...
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Saturday Evening Post
''The Saturday Evening Post'' is an American magazine, currently published six times a year. It was issued weekly under this title from 1897 until 1963, then every two weeks until 1969. From the 1920s to the 1960s, it was one of the most widely circulated and influential magazines within the American middle class, with fiction, non-fiction, cartoons and features that reached two million homes every week. The magazine declined in readership through the 1960s, and in 1969 ''The Saturday Evening Post'' folded for two years before being revived as a quarterly publication with an emphasis on medical articles in 1971. As of the late 2000s, ''The Saturday Evening Post'' is published six times a year by the Saturday Evening Post Society, which purchased the magazine in 1982. The magazine was redesigned in 2013. History Rise ''The Saturday Evening Post'' was first published in 1821 in the same printing shop at 53 Market Street in Philadelphia where the Benjamin Franklin-founded ''Pennsyl ...
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She Fell Among Thieves (TV Film)
''She Fell Among Thieves'' is a 1978 British television film based on the novel of the same name by Dornford Yates, adapted for television by Tom Sharpe. It stars Malcolm McDowell and Eileen Atkins and was directed by Clive Donner. It was first broadcast on BBC2 on Wednesday 1 March 1978 at 9:40 p.m. as “Play of the Week.” It was one of a series of television films made by the BBC and Donner which focused on British heroes between the wars, others including '' Rogue Male'' and ''The Three Hostages''.Television: An Interview with Mark Shivas Hodgson, Clive. London Magazine18.1 (Apr 1, 1978): 68. Cast * ''Richard Chandos'' - Malcolm McDowell * ''Vanity Fair'' - Eileen Atkins * ''Jonathan Mansel'' - Michael Jayston * ''Jenny'' - Karen Dotrice * ''Virginia'' - Sarah Badel * ''Acorn'' - Philip Locke * ''Father Below'' - Richard Pearson * ''Lafone'' - Freda Jackson * ''Bell'' - Ralph Arliss * ''Carson'' - Bernard Hill * ''Candle'' - Simon Cadell * ''Gaston'' - Jonathan Ly ...
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BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. The station controller is Mohit Bakaya. Broadcasting throughout the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands on FM, LW and DAB, and on BBC Sounds, it can be received in the eastern counties of Ireland, northern France and Northern Europe. It is available on Freeview, Sky, and Virgin Media. Radio 4 currently reaches over 10 million listeners, making it the UK's second most-popular radio station after Radio 2. BBC Radio 4 broadcasts news programmes such as ''Today'' and ''The World at One'', heralded on air by the Greenwich Time Signal pips or the chimes of Big Ben. The pips are only accurate on FM, LW, and MW; there is a delay on digital radio of three to five seconds and ...
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Honor Blackman
Honor Blackman (22 August 1925 – 5 April 2020) was an English actress, known for the roles of Cathy Gale in '' The Avengers''Aaker, Everett (2006). ''Encyclopedia of Early Television Crime Fighters''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. 58. (1962–1964), Bond girl Pussy Galore in '' Goldfinger'' (1964), Julia Daggett in ''Shalako'' (1968), and Hera in '' Jason and the Argonauts'' (1963). She is also known for her role as Laura West in the ITV sitcom ''The Upper Hand'' (1990–1996). Early life Honor Blackman was born on 22 August 1925 in Plaistow, the daughter of Edith Eliza (Stokes) and Frederick Blackman, a civil service statistician. She attended North Ealing Primary School and Ealing County Grammar School for Girls. For her 15th birthday, her parents gave her acting lessons and began her training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1940. While attending the Guildhall School, Blackman worked as a clerical assistant for the Home Office. Following graduation, she was ...
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