tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post3102881376898442817..comments2024-03-29T07:50:15.957+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: More Yamamura?Ketlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-23966911485754047232017-04-24T04:10:18.102+01:002017-04-24T04:10:18.102+01:00Kaor, DAVID!
Cool, what you said about the works ...Kaor, DAVID!<br /><br />Cool, what you said about the works of Elleston Trevor. Yet another writer who seems interesting that I never read. Darn!<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-6492588860388803632017-04-24T03:02:14.290+01:002017-04-24T03:02:14.290+01:00Paul:
Elleston Trevor (a.k.a. Adam Hall and Simon ...Paul:<br />Elleston Trevor (a.k.a. Adam Hall and Simon Rattray) wrote some mysteries in the mid-to-late '50s with a character named Hugo Bishop. Bishop wasn't a policeman or private investigator, but, as the back-cover blurb on one reprinting put it, "he just shows up to help." It was often mentioned that Bishop wrote a series of books collectively titled *Personality Under Stress*, which suggests a psychologist ... but he was accustomed to such things as finding someone had planted a bomb in the plane he was aboard. <br /><br />What brought the Hugo Bishop stories to my mind was that *Pawn in Jeopardy*, although a murder mystery, slipped into science fiction territory because the victims were being killed over a secret they'd discovered while exploring the Antarctic. And *Rook's Gambit* was even more explicitly science fiction, since the key to it was the invention of a no-fooling DEATH RAY pistol.<br /><br />(*Pawn* is a particular favorite of mine, as I managed to deduce what the Antarctic secret was before it was revealed. It wasn't, so far as I know, true in the real world.)David Birrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08973889429164886381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-80632956262618410612017-04-24T02:18:30.438+01:002017-04-24T02:18:30.438+01:00Kaor, Paul!
Not directly on tangent, but your com...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />Not directly on tangent, but your comments reminded me of how some of the mysteries of John Dickson Carr were also hilariously funny! Comedy and humor in an otherwise rather grim mystery is another way of developing or continuing a series.<br /><br />Poul Anderson was a fan of "The Saint" mysteries. I really should try to find some of those books. The fact PA liked them is a good enough recommendation!<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com