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Jack Trevor Story (30 March 1917 – 5 December 1991) was a British novelist, publishing prolifically from the 1940s to the 1970s. His best-known works are the 1949 comic mystery The Trouble with Harry (which was adapted for Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 film of the same name), the Albert Argyle trilogy (Live Now, Pay Later, Something for Nothing and The Urban District Lover), and his Horace ...
OBITUARY FROM THE INDEPENDENT December 1991. JACK TREVOR STORY was a writer more often in the news for his complicated private life than for the books he wrote. His books (even his Sexton Blake detective stories) were idiosyncratic enough; his lifestyle thumpingly so. There can have been, surely, few popular writers (as a breed a fairly ...
Jack thought his executioner was right and I was wrong. But he was still receiving letters about the column 20 years later. Jack Trevor Story started life is a butcher’s boy in Cambridge. He sold his first story to John o’ London’s when he was working as an electronics engineer with Marconi.
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Dec 5, 1991 · Jack Trevor Story was a prolific British writer of thrillers, fiction and nonfiction. He wrote under various pseudonyms and his novel The Trouble with Harry was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Jack Trevor Story was perhaps our greatest comic novelist and an extraordinary writer with whom you should instantly familiarise yourselves. His last words, scrawled exuberantly underneath a typed 'THE END' on his last manuscript, completed only minutes before suffering a fatal heart attack at his typewriter, were 'And I'm in Love!!' He was a ...
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Jack Trevor Story (1917-1991) was a UK author who wrote The Trouble with Harry, filmed by Hitchcock, and several sf novels with dystopian themes. He also contributed to the Sexton Blake Library and other pseudonymous works.
