The Rise Of Henry Morcar (Second in Trilogy)

Phyllis Bentley

Literature & Fiction

Pan Books

A man of his time

Inheritance

Contemporary

Freedom, farewell

Victor Gollancz, Ltd.

Tales of the West Riding

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

Inheritance was probably Phyllis Bentley's most famous novel --certainly it is a terrific saga of the West Riding of Yorkshire and the textile industry, and it made Phyllis Bentley famous. THe novel spans 119 years of history and the life stories of 27 major characters. KF

Gollancz

Large 8vo. 144 pp, text, chronology, notes on the pictures, index. Second Printing, September 1970. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine.``The author's book makes clear that, apart from their interest as writers and as individuals, the Brontes have a wide social significance. For they lived when the Industrial Revolution was gaining momentum in Yorkshire and the Midlands; this is reflected in the conflict between solitary integrity and worldliness which can be sense in their work, and which intensifies the drama of their lives. The b&amp;w photographs illustrate every aspect of the Brontes' lives, family, surroundings, and works." from the jacket flap

The Brontes and Their World

The Viking Press

Chain of Witnesses: The Cases of Miss Phipps

Phyllis Bentley, OBE, (1894-1977) was an important regional novelist of her native Yorkshire. so important that she received the unusual honor of being on a cigarette card. In the 1930s she began to write detective short stories, featuring a detective novelist, Miss Marian Phipps. In the first story she meets a young police officer on a train; he is studying his papers to solve a crime; she is suffering from writer s block. Their papers become mixed together, and Miss Phipps, in typical armchair detective form, solves the crime for the police officer. Thus began a series of mystery stories, 16 of which are collected in this volume. Critic Nancy Ellen Talburt said -- Stylistically, the stories . . . share a quiet humor and misleading simplicity of statement with the works of Christie . . . . Her work [is] informed and consistent with the classic traditions of the mystery. The Editor: Marvin Lachman is one of the premier analysts and critics of detective fiction. He has won the Edgard for Critical/Biographical works and The Raven for his contributions to Mystery Fandom. This is the thirty-sixth volume in Crippen & Landru's Lost Classics series -- uncollected detective and mystery stories by great writers of the past. The cover is by Gail Cross.

Marvin Lachman

Short Stories & Anthologies

Crippen & Landru, Publishers

Phyllis Bentley, OBE, (1894-1977) was an important regional novelist of her native Yorkshire. so important that she received the unusual honor of being on a cigarette card. In the 1930s she began to write detective short stories, featuring a detective novelist, Miss Marian Phipps. In the first story she meets a young police officer on a train; he is studying his papers to solve a crime; she is suffering from writer s block. Their papers become mixed together, and Miss Phipps, in typical armchair detective form, solves the crime for the police officer. Thus began a series of mystery stories, 16 of which are collected in this volume. Critic Nancy Ellen Talburt said -- Stylistically, the stories . . . share a quiet humor and misleading simplicity of statement with the works of Christie . . . . Her work [is] informed and consistent with the classic traditions of the mystery. The Editor: Marvin Lachman is one of the premier analysts and critics of detective fiction. He has won the Edgard for Critical/Biographical works and The Raven for his contributions to Mystery Fandom. This is the thirty-sixth volume in Crippen & Landru's Lost Classics series -- uncollected detective and mystery stories by great writers of the past. The cover is by Gail Cross.

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