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Alec Marsh on After the Flood
The author of the Drabble & Harris Thrillers chats about his latest.
Alec Marsh, many congrats on the new book. This is your fourth Drabble & Harris thriller. What’s happened to our two heroes since Ghosts of the West? The big development is that Ernest Drabble has got married to Charlotte Moore whom he met in Ghosts of the West....
The Irresistible Appeal of the 1930s
Of all the periods of our past the 1930s stands out, delivering the perfect mix of tangibility and nostalgia – sliced through with grit, like Brighton Rock.
The Irresistible Appeal of the 1930s What is it about the 1930s that we find so irresistible? What is it about this decade that provides such constant inspiration to writers and filmmakers – not to mention our imaginations? Why can’t we get enough of the 1930s? I...
Ghosts of the West, by Alec Marsh
Highly entertaining whilst packing a historical punch.
Those readers of the same vintage as I am may remember Dick Barton, Special Agent, the television programme at least, if not the original radio series. The iconic music from that series was playing in my head whilst I was reading Alec Marsh’s Ghosts of the West,...
Rule Britannia, by Alec Marsh
The first Drabble & Harris Thriller is a highly entertaining read.
I thoroughly enjoyed Rule Britannia, the first of a series of cracking historical thrillers set in the 1930s. It features an oddball couple of adventurers, Ernest Drabble, a Cambridge historian and mountaineer, and his old schoolfriend, Percival Harris, who is a Fleet...
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A E W Mason & The Four Feathers
Alec Marsh wonders why we forget the author of a book that has been adapted six times.
It’s a safe bet to suppose that while you’ll know of The Four Feathers and its essential storyline – after all, it’s been adapted for film six times – you probably won’t be able to name its author. In fact you’re almost certainly more likely to know that the most...
Why Historical Crime Fiction Matters
Historical crime fiction allows the present to claim ownership over the past.
In an age when people have taken to pulling down statues – albeit this hasn’t happened for a couple of years now – you know that there’s a disconnect between the past and the present. Whether that misconnection is born of ignorance, misunderstanding or ingrained...
Alec Marsh
The author of the Drabble & Harris Thrillers chats about his series and his writing.
What prompted you to write about Drabble & Harris, and the Inter-War period? The idea for my first novel, Rule Britannia, was inspired by two things – first I remember reading about Oliver Cromwell’s head, and how it had been in private hands for hundreds of...
Buffalo Bill and the Wild West Shows
Wild West Shows were hugely popular and solidified the Wild West myth.
Long before John Wayne brought the world that walk; long before Clint Eastward flicked his poncho as the Man With No Name, long before the old West was immortalised on the big screen, it had already been framed in the minds of generations of men and women – in a...