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Mark Hodder, author of the BURTON & SWINBURNE novels and creator and curator of the BLAKIANA website. See also @TheDissuader

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16 KNOCKOUT COMIC Sexton Blake strips added to the Sexton Blake PDF library. Membership details here: https://t.co/Z8puRGgXUb #storypapers #detectivefiction #SherlockHolmes

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Added to the Sexton Blake PDF Library:
DETECTIVE_WEEKLY_0002_blake_at_bay
DETECTIVE_WEEKLY_0003_silent_woman
DETECTIVE_WEEKLY_0004_blakes_triumph
DETECTIVE_WEEKLY_0005_falcon_fambridge
DETECTIVE_WEEKLY_0006_chocolate_king
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New profile added: BARON VON KRAVITCH and his daughter, ELSA.
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One of the later serial villains of the Blake saga ... and his innocent and long-suffering daughter.

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New profile page added: BASIL WICKETSHAW (work in progress). Probably William Murray Graydon's best Blake villain.
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The SEXTON BLAKE PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP PDF LIBRARY is now open. More than 3,000 scanned issues available for you to download at your leisure. For membership details, click here: https://t.co/LJcVK8JlBO #sextonblake #storypapers #detectivefiction #sherlockholmes

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The SEXTON BLAKE PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP PDF LIBRARY is now open. More than 3,000 scanned issues available for you to download at your leisure. For membership details, click here: https://t.co/LJcVK8JlBO #sextonblake #storypapers #detectivefiction #sherlockholmes

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Review: SEXTON BLAKE IN BORNEO by Anon. (E. W. Alais) UNION JACK · New series · Issue 276 · 23/1/1909
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I read this one after THE BLUE GOD (1916), in which Blake showed he had knowledge of Borneo. This tale shows how he got it!

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Review: MRS. LAMBERT'S LODGER by Anon. (Unknown)
ANSWERS WEEKLY · Issue 1,073 · 19/12/1908.
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@morticaine @MarkHodderBooks Are you a member of the Facebook Sexton Blake Society? If not, I encourage you to join! https://t.co/ZD6L7FnH8H #SherlockHolmes #storypapers #fiction #detective #oldboys #sextonblake #bibliography #britishdetectives

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The BLAKIANA bibliography page for 1946 is now live. Wild stuff in KNOCKOUT, realism in the SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY.
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The BLAKIANA bibliography page for 1945 is now live. These are the doldrum years, though there's a lot of nice social history in the SBLs.
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The BLAKIANA bibliography page for 1944 is now live. By this point, the era of the super-crooks feels a long time in the past. I guess Hitler put all the other super-villains in the shade.
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Review: THE CARVEN WOOD MYSTERY
by Anon. (Ernest Sempill aka M. Storm) THE PENNY PICTORIAL · Issue 613 · 25/2/1911.
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The BLAKIANA bibliography page for 1943 is now live. The death of Monsieur Zenith!
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New review: BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION by G. H. Teed. Crooked financier HAMMERTON PALMER engages in a battle of wits with Sexton Blake in a Canadian frontier town. This is a pretty stunning issue, one of the best I've read in quite a while.
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The BLAKIANA bibliography page for 1941 is now live. More "cosy crimes" but with the war as the backdrop. With the exception of a single reprint, there's not a super-crook in sight.
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The BLAKIANA bibliography page for 1940 is now live. DETECTIVE WEEKLY folds, while the SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY raises its price by a halfpenny and reduces its output from 48 books per year to 34 ... and reprints, reprints, reprints.
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The BLAKIANA bibliography page for 1939 is now live. The arrival of KNOCKOUT and Sexton Blake comic strips!
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Now live on BLAKIANA, a review of THE GREAT HOAX; OR, THE CASE OF THE BOGUS FILM COMPANY by Anon. (Jack Lewis). UNION JACK · New series · Issue 689. Leon Kestrel teams up for the first time with Fifito Madrano, the steeplejack!
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