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Perfect escapism for the quiet post-Christmas & New Year period. Will the diamond markets be destroyed by the Professor’s complex recipe for nature-identical synthetic diamonds? Explosions, imprisonment, the feigning of madness, yachting pursuits at night on the Solent, & now it’s heading to a final denouement in Switzerland ….
— Jan 06, 2013 07:40AM
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Finished Round 2, “The Black Gang” last night. Such style, honour, strategy, and quite exquisite violence. A riveting good read. So very, very reminiscent of Fleming’s James Bond books; except that Hugh Drummond comfortably predates Bond by almost a generation.
— Oct 26, 2012 03:19AM
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Now getting into “The Black Gang”: “If Mr Darrell or any of them ring up I shall be tearing a devilled bone to-night at the Savoy grill at eleven o’clock.” The imposter James Bond is a mere copycat by comparison!
— Oct 24, 2012 07:25AM
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Finished the 1st bk late last night. Overall it has read like the most headstrong collision of Hannay, Wimsey, Bond, Steed, Penelope Pitstop, & Paul Daniels: except that, of course, Hugh Drummond predated most of those. Love the dry sense of humour: “Hugh”, he spluttered, “there’s only one stipulation. An armistice must be declared during Ascot week” (p.101).
— Aug 21, 2012 06:28AM
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All terrifically British stiff upper lip honour and heroism.
— Aug 20, 2012 01:49AM
