tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post8097739282302057742..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': Forgotten Book - A Dandy in AspicMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-49291442014357846362020-09-07T11:00:44.407+01:002020-09-07T11:00:44.407+01:00Thanks, Philip. That's very interesting. I'...Thanks, Philip. That's very interesting. I'm sure you'll enjoy Joseph Goodrich's discussion of Marlowe in Unusual Suspects. As you say, Dandy is unique in that way.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-39305863144259356452020-09-07T10:59:27.967+01:002020-09-07T10:59:27.967+01:00Thanks, Todd. I look forward to seeing the film.Thanks, Todd. I look forward to seeing the film.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-85055283238692252652020-09-06T18:56:17.846+01:002020-09-06T18:56:17.846+01:00Derek Marlowe was an interesting writer, one who n...Derek Marlowe was an interesting writer, one who never settled into a single genre. Apparently he wrote A Dandy in Aspic in a few weeks when he shared a flat in Vauxhall with Tom Stoppard and Piers Paul Read, and he was the first of the trio to have a real success. I wrote the entry on Marlowe for Barry Forshaw’s British Crime Writing Encyclopedia a few years ago, and enjoyed reading some of his other novels like A Single Summer with L.B. In keeping with his name, he wrote a Chandler pastiche, Somebody’s Sister, though it’s not particularly good. Dandy is probably his best, certainly his best-remembered, book. It must be unique in Cold War spy fiction in that the hero is trying to get away over the Berlin Wall in the wrong direction, west to east.<br /><br />Philip GoodenPhilip Goodenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12159882795129785425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-10936846370500489442020-09-05T17:40:29.723+01:002020-09-05T17:40:29.723+01:00I rather like the film version, though it isn'...I rather like the film version, though it isn't superb, but haven't yet tried the novel...sounds like it's also not a life-changer, but worthwhile...thanks!Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com