tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post2333335775070555848..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': Forgotten Book - Death at Broadcasting HouseMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-28714201527801302792021-11-19T10:51:37.901+00:002021-11-19T10:51:37.901+00:00Yes, Patrick, I'd like to see it back in print...Yes, Patrick, I'd like to see it back in print. Of course, with two writers, the rights are always more difficult to sort out.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-90328884823609690312021-11-18T21:56:35.900+00:002021-11-18T21:56:35.900+00:00It's a pity that Death at Broadcasting House b...It's a pity that Death at Broadcasting House book is so hard to find any copies which aren't going for small fortune online. I also wish that the movie will one day be available on region 1 DVD so I can ad it to my collection.Patrick McIntoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06003849833504343666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-71267165342637789312017-12-22T18:48:31.316+00:002017-12-22T18:48:31.316+00:00Much appreciated! Happily, I have a copy of that b...Much appreciated! Happily, I have a copy of that book, which I have yet to read. Based on your recommendation I'll be happy to life it up the TBR list.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-82690860937229439352017-12-22T16:55:37.570+00:002017-12-22T16:55:37.570+00:00Sorry for all the messages, but that PDF of Death ...Sorry for all the messages, but that PDF of Death At Broadcasting House was full of errors. There's a better one here:<br /><br />https://archive.org/details/DeathAtBroadcastingHouse_201712<br /><br />Btw, I've now read Gielgud and Marvell's The First Television Murder: it isn't quite as compelling as Death At Broadcasting House, but it does have some good contemporary detail on life at Alexandra Palace, at a time when the BBC's TV department was based there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-11464180094670660092017-12-14T17:37:27.955+00:002017-12-14T17:37:27.955+00:00Indeed! Here's a (rather ungainly) PDF of all ...Indeed! Here's a (rather ungainly) PDF of all the chapters from the serialised edition:<br /><br />https://www.dropbox.com/s/qjulhu91qarnbpg/Death%20At%20Broadcasting%20House.pdf?dl=0Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-66581355857769233442017-12-13T18:40:05.959+00:002017-12-13T18:40:05.959+00:00Thanks, Martin. I've just discovered something...Thanks, Martin. I've just discovered something rather curious about the book Death At Broadcasting House -- it seems to have been serialised in a slightly different form in an Australian newspaper, The Sydney Morning Herald, possibly before it was published in the UK: <br /><br />https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17076216/1146004Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-1162292926021810062017-12-12T23:09:32.498+00:002017-12-12T23:09:32.498+00:00Great to hear from you, ahopeful, thanks.Great to hear from you, ahopeful, thanks.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-9738855818315275382017-12-12T01:24:44.987+00:002017-12-12T01:24:44.987+00:00Martin, many thanks for writing this blogpost abou...Martin, many thanks for writing this blogpost about Death At Broadcasting House, which I've just read and enjoyed. I loved the period detail (then contemporary, of course!), and I was pretty impressed by the plot too because I actually got the identity of the murderer wrong, having been fooled by a red herring which I spent far too long smugly patting myself on the back for having spotted, thinking it was a genuine clue. <br /><br />The copy of the book I read (at the British Library) was a "Cherry Tree" edition and didn't have illustrations of any kind, but fortunately the floor plans for Broadcasting House as it was in the 1930s are lovingly preserved at http://www.orbem.co.uk/bh32/bh32_6.htm -- and they're a great help in visualising the scene of the crime. <br /><br />By the way, I think there's a typo in one of the sentences in your blogpost: "when an actor is killed in front of an open microphone when" (sic). <br /><br />Thanks for the blog and for all the invaluable work you do for classic crime fiction and especially the British Library series.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com