Company of Bandits

Story, Jack Trevor

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Howard Baker

Albert Rides Again

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Allison & Busby LTD

<p>A dark comedy of errors made famous by Alfred Hitchcock. With a new introduction by Michael Moorcock On the outskirts of a small town, young Abie discovers the body of a middle-aged man in the woods. Three people are convinced they are responsible for Harry’s death: Captain Wiles thinks he accidentally shot him while hunting rabbits; Miss Graveley thinks she may have done more damage than she intended when she hit him with her shoe – and Abie’s mother reveals that it might have been her too. The police are called in to investigate, but meanwhile artist Sam Marlow becomes a good-natured sleuth, helping the townspeople to bury, dig up, and rebury the corpse in an effort to evade the authorities and finally discover the truth about Harry.</p>

The Trouble with Harry (Allison & Busby Classics)

Humor & Satire

Allison Busby

'Mr Story weaves a wildly funny escapade' Sunday Times  Horace Spurgeon Fenton, fifty-something novelist and scriptwriter living in Hampstead with a flatful of nurses, suddenly finds himself entangled with Ariadne (the young daughter of a fading film star) in a fast-paced comedy thriller set amidst the dying echoes of the 1960s.  Jack Trevor Story (1917-1991)was a prolific, and profligate, scriptwriter, novelist and journalist. Scripts for Danger Man, Dixon and Budgie, films for Anna Neagle and Spike Milligan and a still fondly remembered column for the Guardian scarcely do justice to his output. Hitchcock's film The Trouble With Harry was his, as was the prophetic Live Now Pay Later.  Story's alter ego Horace Spurgeon Fenton appears in three books including I Sit in Hanger Lane and Hitler Needs You. But in One Last Mad Embrace Jack Trevor Story is at the top of his considerable powers. Although well-received at the time (1970), One Last Mad Embrace was out of print for years, a rarity even secondhand.  Jack Trevor Story was married three times, divorced at least once and had eight children. And bankrupt twice. 'A Proust of the working class.' Michael Moorcock 'In the shambling talented Horace he creates at last a rounded tangible figure' Sunday Times 'One of the funniest writers we have ' Sunday Telegraph  further information at www.reinkarnationbooks.com

One last mad embrace: A novel

The wind in the snottygobble tree

Allison and Busby

Letters to an intimate stranger;: A year in the life of Jack Trevor Story

Allison & Bushby

The Trouble with Harry

"Jack Trevor Story, writer, eccentric and now star of his own television series, JACK ON THE BOX, is renowned for his idiosyncratic approach to life, his hatred of bureaucracy and his unflagging rejection of the obvious. In this volume of short pieces he lures the reader into his own eclectic and highly personal universe, centred somewhere on the edge of Hampstead Heath, some time in the 1970s, and presided over by the lovely Maggie (and her ghost). Why is Jack falling into the river, fully clothed? Who is Kaiser Konrad and why did he announce his own death by telegram? Will Maggie ever return from Belgium? We can't promise an answer to any of these questions -- but come in and try to find the real Jack Trevor Story, while he tries to find himself! Viewers of JACK ON THE BOX will recognise many of the themes dealt with here, along with the wit, wisdom and sheer presence of Britain's best comic novelist. And for those already familiar with the lives and times of Albert Argyll and Horace Spurgeon Fenton and all the magical characters which have at one time or another moved through the pages of Jack's life, here is a valuable glimpse into the reality of their creator."

Jack on the Box

Biographies & Memoirs

Savoy Books

One Last Mad Embrace

reinkarnation

<p>Horace Spurgeon Fenton, struggling scriptwriter, is the author's alter ego. In this darkly comic novel Fenton collides with the manic world of the Wardour Street film industry and struggles to provide for his children, his wives, and his lovers.</p>

I Sit in Hanger Lane

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