''Mr. Finchley Goes to Paris'' is a
comedy novel by the British writer
Victor Canning
Victor Canning (16 June 1911 – 21 February 1986) was a prolific British writer of novels and thrillers who flourished in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He was personally reticent, writing no memoirs and giving relatively few newspaper interviews. ...
. It was the second of a trilogy featuring the mild-mannered
Edgar Finchley. The first publication in 1938 was by
Hodder and Stoughton in the UK and Carrick and Evans in the USA.
[Higgins, John]
Victor Canning biography
/ref> It was included in the Heinemann Uniform Edition of 1974, and a new edition has recently appeared (2019) from Farrago Books. In 1990 it was adapted for radio by the BBC starring Richard Griffiths
Richard Thomas Griffiths (31 July 1947 – 28 March 2013) was an English actor of film, television, and stage. For his performance in the stage play ''The History Boys'', Griffiths won a Tony Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Drama Desk Aw ...
[Ehland and Wächter p.102]
Synopsis
The mild-mannered clerk Mr. Finchley is just about to propose marriage, when he is sent by his firm to Paris where he enjoys a further series of adventures, returning a week later with an orphan boy. He completes his proposal and they adopt the boy.
References
Bibliography
* Ehland, Christoph and Wächter, Cornelia. ''Middlebrow and Gender, 1890-1945''. BRILL, 2016.
* Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015.
External links
Full bibliography
1938 British novels
British comedy novels
Novels set in Paris
Novels by Victor Canning
Hodder & Stoughton books
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