tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945802533317836555.post7146045959322317124..comments2024-03-28T14:59:05.258-07:00Comments on GARY DOBBS AT THE TAINTED ARCHIVE: Sexton Blake and the secondhand books incidentGary Dobbs/Jack Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10935686140719743351noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945802533317836555.post-85485705191581519992014-03-20T09:26:12.622-07:002014-03-20T09:26:12.622-07:00Folowing on from that, can I just mention my artic...Folowing on from that, can I just mention my article `Walter the Wordsmith`, which was posted 15 March or thereabouts at http://bookshelvesandbrownale.blogspot.com , and Keith Chapmans` additional comment which mentions Tainted Archive.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />Nick<br /><br />Nick Ohttp://bookshelvesandbrownale.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945802533317836555.post-26518980334160562282014-03-01T08:46:59.312-08:002014-03-01T08:46:59.312-08:00Thank you for recommending my Sexton Blake Blog, i...Thank you for recommending my Sexton Blake Blog, it was kind of you to give it a plug.<br /><br />You`re correct that in the recent past the SBB has not been updated regularly, but hopefully I shall be able to rectify that this year.<br /><br />It`s always good to encounter a fellow Tyrer fan ! The man is unjustly overlooked in my opinion. <br /><br />All the Best,<br /><br />Nick O<br /><br /> Nick Ohttp://thesextonblakeblog.blogspot.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945802533317836555.post-81379326575226985732014-02-27T08:06:14.927-08:002014-02-27T08:06:14.927-08:00Thank yoy Keith...some great information.Thank yoy Keith...some great information.Gary Dobbs/Jack Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10935686140719743351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945802533317836555.post-33566532376444015592014-02-26T18:54:10.986-08:002014-02-26T18:54:10.986-08:00Today's tip, Gary! Go back to that Sexton Blak...Today's tip, Gary! Go back to that Sexton Blake blog and put "Walter Tyrer" in the Google search box top left. It will bring up several reviews of Tyrer's Sexton Blake stories. In some of the reviews, you will find a little info about Lancastrian Tyrer and his career in popular fiction.<br /><br />As well as his Sexton Blake blog, Nick has another, bookshelvesandbrownale.blogspot. Go there, too, and again enter the search for "Walter Tyrer" for yet more info.<br /><br />I knew Tyrer as "J. T. Lang" at the time I was editing for Micron Publications in the 1960s. The reason for the pen-name was probably that Tyrer's main, long-term employer was Fleetway Publications, of which Micron was a small, upstart rival. For Micron, Tyrer wrote short stories for my Edgar Wallace Mystery Magazine and scripts for Western Adventure Library and Romantic Adventure Library.<br /><br />From his home in Hove, Sussex, on 10 May, 1964, "Lang" wrote to me: "My last hardcover was <i>Such Friends Are Dangerous</i> and 20th Century Fox have an option on this. A Lancastrian, I have contributed to <i>Coronation Street</i>. Also I seem to be one of Holland's favourite serial writers. De Geillustreerde [an Amsterdam publisher of magazines, comics and genre novels] recently sent a writer and photographer to do a feature about me ... about one of me."<br />Chap O'Keefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04404176810063857291noreply@blogger.com