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Blind Corner Paperback – 1 Jan 2001

by Dornford Yates (Author)

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This is Yates first thriller: a tautly plotted page-turner featuring the crime-busting adventures of suave Richard Chandos. Chandos is thrown out of Oxford for beating up some Communists, and on return from vacation in Biarritz he witnesses a murder. Teaming up at his London club with friend Jonathan Mansel, a stratagem is devised to catch the killer.

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Paperback: 218 pages
Publisher: House of Stratus Ltd; New edition edition (1 January 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1842329677
ISBN-13: 978-1842329672
Product Dimensions: 13.5 x 1.3 x 20.5 cm
Boxed-product Weight: 318 g
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Born Cecil William Mercer, into a middle-class Victorian family with many skeletons in the closet, including his great-uncle's conviction for embezzlement from a law firm and subsequent suicide, Yates parents somehow scraped enough money together to send him to Harrow. The son of a solicitor, he qualified as a barrister while still finding time to contribute stories to the Windsor Magazine. After the First World War, however, he gave up legal work in favor of writing full time. He went on to complete some thirty books ranging from light-hearted farce to adventure thrillers. The Berry series established Yates reputation as a writer of witty, upper-crust romances, and he was also very successful with the thriller genre though the character Richard Chandos. As a consequence of his education and experience, Yates books encompass the genteel lifea nostalgic glimpse at Edwardian decadence and a number of swindling solicitors, and he regularly featured in bestseller lists and was greatly admired by both readers and fellow authors.

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Olympus John

I highly recommend to that tiny market of surviving Boys' Own Paper ...

8 September 2016 - Published on Amazon.com

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A little dated and rather quaint in language. A reminder of how the British upper class spoke and behaved in the 1920's. Redolent of John Buchan.

A rip roaring boys' tale of derring do, tightly plotted and exciting in its way, even as there was no doubt as to the eventual outcome.

I highly recommend to that tiny market of surviving Boys' Own Paper addicts.

Michael O'Neill

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A great DY novel, the first appearance of J.Mansel

Vixen

A Story for Readers

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If you enjoy the craft of story telling this is a must read! The plot is well-crafted. The characters are sketched with the kind of detail that makes you see them. There is suspense and humour and drama.

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Annette Hill

I really enjoyed this book

11 December 2014 - Published on Amazon.com

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I really enjoyed this book...full of intrigue and determination. Well written in that masterly way. I'm becoming rather hooked on Dornford Yates!

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Douglas J. Bassett

Didn't much like it

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This is the only book of Yates' that I've read, and honestly I was less than impressed. Yates is normally classed with John Buchan and "Sapper" (sometimes called the "Clubland" writers, a formulation that for an American, at least, is less than useful, as few really understand what a British "Club" is or was), but he lacks Buchan's literary ambition and Sapper's modern snap. Actually BLIND CORNER just sorts of sits about, lifeless -- its not even as good as second tier (but still entertaining) efforts in this area like Valentine Williams' THE MAN WITH THE CLUBFOOT.

Obviously inspired by Anthony Hope's THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (in many ways the source of the thriller genre) BLIND CORNER has the basic formula that a lot of thrillers of this time had. Average upper-class British chap by sheer happenstance is witness to a murder, soon joins forces with his friends and a wise, older leader to get a buried treasure out of a not-very-well presented Austrian (or German, I don't remember exactly, truth to tell) village. Their opposition is a rather dull group of thugs -- indeed one of the problems with this book is that the bad guys are so faceless, in a book like this you want them to be truly larger than life, this is supposed to be a hearkening back to Romance, right? Why are you giving me a group of second-rate gangsters right out of Maugham's ASHENDEN?

But worse, Yates made the very odd decision here to make the motive force behind the plot -- the true hero -- the Wiser Older Fellow, not the viewpoint character. This necessarily has the effect of distancing yourself from all the action, since its not so much a process of "you identifying with the hero" as it is "you identyifying with a guy who's impressed with the hero". Yes, our viewpoint character does stuff, but always in the service of His Commander's intent (and often, orders). This is like watching LAWRENCE OF ARABIA through a bit player's eyes, it just lacks the immediacy needed for good adventure/thriller fiction.

So in short, this yet another thriller from this era which is just simply badly put together -- it doesn't work. Unfortunately, unlike some others of this sort (like THE MAN WITH THE CLUBFOOT, actually) its also quite dull -- and there's nothing more depressing than a dull attempt at "fun". Avoid.

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