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Alan Melville (9 April 1910 – 24 December 1983) was an English broadcaster, writer, actor, raconteur, producer, playwright and wit.
Alan Melville has 27 books on Goodreads with 3709 ratings. Alan Melville’s most popular book is Weekend at Thrackley.
Weekend at Thrackley is a 1934 detective novel by the British writer Alan Melville. A whodunit with comic overtones, it takes the form of a country house mystery, a genre at its height during the decade. His debut novel, it was a commercial success and led to him giving up his job in the timber trade to become a full
Alan Melville is the author of Weekend at Thrackley (3.67 avg rating, 739 ratings, 167 reviews, published 1934), Quick Curtain (3.41 avg rating, 520 rati...
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Alan Melville’s Weekend At Thrackley, originally published in 1934, is a country house mystery with quite a cast of characters. A young veteran of WWI, who has not had a job for about three years, receives an invitation to a country house party in Surrey.
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Sep 19, 2016 · There is no doubt Alan Melville can write, and he etches in his descriptions with deft strokes of the pen bringing the whole mystery vividly before his readers, but always keeping, as a writer of a good mystery should, the solution to the end.
Quick Curtain is a 1934 detective novel by the British writer Alan Melville. It was his second novel following his breakout success with the country house mystery Weekend at Thrackley earlier the same year. It was reissued in 2015 by the British Library Publishing as part of a group of crime novels from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.
