Tall Timber

by George Goodchild (Adapter)

Modern Publishing edition bound in red cloth with black lettering. 271 pages plus ads at the rear. A Very Good copy in a Very Good dust jacket. Front board has a lift. Small bump to the lower rear corner. Dust soiling to the edges of the upper page block. Content is clean, tight and unmarked. The dust jacket has tiny frays to its spine tips and corners. Some creases and tears to the panels' edges. Tanning and dust soiling to the rear panel. Romance story of the Canadian Backwoods.

Hardcover

First published October 1, 2003

About the author

George B. Goodchild (1888-1969) aka Alan Dare, Wallace Q. Reid, and Jesse Templeton, was an incredibly prolific successful British author. His career lasted over 60 years (1916-published after death, still reprinted); his works number around 210, most under his own name.

Little is known of his life. GR system bug adds January 1 to his birth date, but the actual date is unknown. Born in Kingston-upon-Thames in 1888, he married Dora Mary Hill and had one son and two daughters. He lived at The Great Quarry, Guildford. Before full-time writing, he had experience in journalism and publishing. He died at Aldershot in March 1969, aged 80.

Featured characters were Scotland Yard Inspector McLean, spy catcher Q33, Trooper O'Neill, cowboy Colorado Jim (Jack) and Nigel Rix. McLean appeared in The Weekly News even anonymously until 6 October 1979, ten years after Goodchild died, and inspired Dandy Inspector McLean Library published by D.C. Thomson. An early 1921 story in The Children's Newspaper was a rare contribution to the scifi genre. Only a handful of his books are still in print, recently some republished in large print. Colorado Jim is the only one on gutenberg.org as of Jan 2012.
(in-progress chronological list of works on aneyespy