Stage Struck

The Magnet Library #16

by Frank Richards

Harry Wharton & co. prepare to perform a play.

20 pages, Paperback

First published May 30, 1908

About the author

Pseudonym of author Charles Hamilton, who created Billy Bunter and who also used plenty of other pseudonyms.

Those other pseudonyms were, in alphabetical order:
Winston Cardew; Martin Clifford; Harry Clifton; Clifford Clive; Sir Alan Cobham; Owen Conquest; Gordon Conway; Freeman Fox; Hamilton Greening; Cecil Herbert; Prosper Howard; Robert Jennings; Gillingham Jones; T Harcourt Llewelyn; Clifford Owen; Ralph Redway; Hilda Richards; Raleigh Robbins; Robert Rogers; Eric Stanhope; Robert Stanley; Nigel Wallace; Talbot Wynyard.

Reviews

[Philip]

Pretty repetitive squabbling over who gets which part in a play. Scrapes two stars thanks to a subplot where Bunter gets trapped in a vault (this might be an early indicator that he is the most interesting character of the bunch).