Knock Four Times

by Margaret Irwin, Zara Ramm (Narrator)

This is a peep at this, our, London so that it appears as the iridescent scene of a pantomime or holiday charade. What happened behind the door at which one had to knock four times? Many incongruous happenings, but chiefly an attack on other doors to make them open wide to the rash young adventurer Dicky.

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First published January 1, 1927

About the author

Born in 1899 and educated at Oxford, Irwin was recognized as a novelist of well-researched and occasionally heart-breaking historical fiction. She is best known for her trilogy about Elizabeth I: Young Bess, Elizabeth Captive Princess, and Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain. Young Bess was made into a movie starring Jean Simmons.

Irwin also wrote passionately about the English Civil War, causing generations to fall in love with the ill-fated but charismatic Earl of Montrose.