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Post by andydecker on Jun 9, 2023 7:46:57 GMT
W. Howard Baker - Strike North (Lancer Books, 1967, 159 pages)  This is one of the Quintain WWII novels, before the character was adepted as a private detective. The copyright is listed as 1965, so I guess there was a British edition first. The Easy Eye-editions had larger type, at least 30% larger than usual, as the publisher informs us. |
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Post by pulphack on Jun 9, 2023 8:41:36 GMT
This was a Sexton Blake Library title first, like most if not all of the Quintains. This, and some handy re-writing for whoever Press Ed could flog it to, accounts for why Quintain is a private eye/insurance investigator/ intelligence agent, etc. It was an odd suspension of disbelief that even in the fifties and sixties (as late as the fifth series 'Fire Over India', which features Blake's less-exotically named brother Nigel) Baker would suddenly catapult Blake back to the war, and yet his age would not change. Isn't pulp great? If only we could all do that...
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