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Mar 26

This month, 160 years ago, Arthur Llewelyn Jones came mewling into the world in the old Roman settlement of Caerleon in south-east Wales. The baby was born at the small family home in ‘The Square’ of the town. But Jones grew up in rural Llanddewi Fach, some five miles north of…

Mar 24

The June 1923 issue of Black Mask was notable, not only for its anti-Klu Klux Klan theme, but also for the appearance of the first hard-boiled detective, Carroll John Daly's Race Williams. Per pulp expert Robert Sampson, Williams: "strains the definition of detective. A hired…

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Ernest Wallcousins, photo by Howard Coster, 1926 ©The National Portrait Gallery, London That old adage a picture is worth a thousand words can never have been more applicable than in the work of the early twentieth-century British illustrator Ernest Charles Wallcousins…

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