[lit-ideas] Re: In memento...eh?

  • From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 16:24:46 -0700

John McCreery wrote

An awful warning of the fleetingness of literary fame and fortune. Ruth brought 
home a couple of aged murder mysteries from our club library. I am looking at 
the blurb on the back cover of one of them. There I see the portentous words

"a thriller in the Dornford Yates tradition"

With a name like that, how could an author be forgotten?

He may not be all /that/ forgotten:

*http://tinyurl.com/3arm7lw*

Robert Paul,
sub-sub-librarian
Mutton College


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