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Adrian Alington. Writer: My Brother Jonathan. Adrian Alington was born in 1895 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK. Adrian was a writer, known for My Brother Jonathan (1948), Those Kids from Town (1942) and Portrait of Clare (1950). Adrian was married to Lucy Wilson.
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Adrian Alington was born in 1895 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK. Adrian was a writer, known for My Brother Jonathan (1948), Those Kids from Town (1942) and Portrait of Clare (1950). Adrian was married to Lucy Wilson.
Sep 29, 2014 · Alington himself was a keen cricketer, and perhaps his time playing county cricket for Oxfordshire in the 1920s is what inspired this crime caper. A dome-headed criminal mastermind known as the Professor, and two goons – Sawn-off Carlo, and Ralph the Disappointment – have a cunning plan.
Apr 30, 2020 · I picked up The Vanishing Celebrities (1947) by Adrian Alington in Oxford a couple of years ago, partly because the title sounded fun, partly because I love the look of Albatross paperbacks and partly because I thought it would be a Golden Age detective novel.
Adrian Alington has 15 books on Goodreads with 171 ratings. Adrian Alington’s most popular book is The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson.
(1895-1958) UK author of Sanity Island ( 1941) which, set on an Island not unlike Britain, is a comic Satire on political extremism and the farcical aspects of re-armament – the targets are mainly of the left.
Three dastardly crooks, the Professor (very foreign), an American gunman, and Ralph the Disappointment, a renegade public-school boy, are plotting the most horrible crime, which they believe will stir the British Empire more than a major war. They are going to wreck the next Test match. We are then taken to an English village.
