tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post7967579122180640526..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': Forgotten Book - The Great British Torso MysteryMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-56658844262317377182021-09-17T18:32:29.955+01:002021-09-17T18:32:29.955+01:00Me too, Jamie!Me too, Jamie!Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-21046987696063636382021-09-12T08:56:59.068+01:002021-09-12T08:56:59.068+01:00This is a classic British murder case I've not...This is a classic British murder case I've not heard of so I'll keep a look out for a copy. Richard Whittington-Egan wrote the classic true crime book previously mentioned on your blog The Ordeal of Philip Yale Drew. I'm still hoping the related book Death to the Rescue by Milward Kennedy will be reissuedJamie Sturgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13943149435161728287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-48174922358960300722021-09-08T10:38:34.403+01:002021-09-08T10:38:34.403+01:00Right, Art, I've found my copy and I shall giv...Right, Art, I've found my copy and I shall give it a go in the very near future!Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-20794984233370439162021-09-07T19:29:08.333+01:002021-09-07T19:29:08.333+01:00I'll be curious to learn your response to Gas....I'll be curious to learn your response to Gas. Besides torsos and gas, one of the characters is a successful mystery novelist, who offers some interesting observations about the craft of mystery writing, the dodges and cliches, and the economics of cranking out whodunits for a living.<br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Art Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01334930459109747106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-6470845502153096212021-09-07T16:41:58.113+01:002021-09-07T16:41:58.113+01:00It isn't mentioned, Art. But I'm very inte...It isn't mentioned, Art. But I'm very interested in this connection and I think I have a copy of the book which I haven't read. So thanks to you, it has shot up the Everest that is my TBR pile!Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-70637787085979269402021-09-06T17:54:34.921+01:002021-09-06T17:54:34.921+01:00Had not heard of this case, but by coincidence, I ...Had not heard of this case, but by coincidence, I just finished rereading Rupert Penny's 1939 She Had to Have Gas, the most complicated and over-the-top of his Inspector Beale series. Published a year after the Cheltenham torso murder, it features not one but two torsos - of attractive women (& which carcase is whose?). Both had head & hands lopped off (& feet also), and autopsy evidence of suffocation by gas is also involved. Seems very likely to me that this novel was Penny's shot at a roman a clef. Is She Had to Have Gas mentioned by Whittington-Egan?Art Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01334930459109747106noreply@blogger.com