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The Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn [1] [2] [3] is the smuggler hero of a series of novels by Russell Thorndike. The first book, Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh [4] was published in 1915. The story idea came from smuggling in the 18th-century Romney Marsh, [5] where brandy and tobacco were brought in at night by boat from France to avoid ...
Thorndike passed away November 7, 1972. Russell Thorndike is the creator and the author of the Doctor Syn of Rodney Marsh series of fictional novels. The series kicked off for the first time back in 1915 with the release of the debut novel. It is of course titled Doctor Syn. Readers would have to wait nearly twenty years before getting their ...
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A baby girl named Imogene is born to Black Nick and Imogene Syn, who have returned to England. (Doctor Syn will later invent a story that little Imogene is actually the daughter of Captain Clegg and a Mayan princess.) Charlotte Cobtree, who has fallen in love with Dr. Syn, dies saving the Scarecrow from the King's men.
Russell Thorndike wrote a half dozen or so books about Dr. Syn, AKA the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. This book, the first, comes when Clegg the Pirate, who has been living in quiet seclusion in Romney Marsh at Dymchurch as a minister, Dr. Syn, has come to the end of his career. The later books serve as earlier adventures of the Scarecrow.
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Nov 21, 1975 · Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow: Directed by James Neilson. With Patrick McGoohan, George Cole, Tony Britton, Michael Hordern. In eighteenth century England, the mysterious masked rider known as the Scarecrow (Patrick McGoohan) leads a rebel band to save the town of Romney Marsh from King George III's (Eric Pohlmann's) oppression and Naval press gangs.
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Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh is the first in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike. The book follows Christopher Syn, the kindly vicar of the little town of Dymchurch. Syn seems pleasant but he has a sinister past. At one time he was the vicious pirate Captain Clegg and he is also the mysterious "Scarecrow of Romney ...
Books listed in order of original publication. Chronologically the events of the Doctor Syn novel occur last with books 2-7 being prequels. NOTE: The BBC Radio/Rufus Sewell abridged readings correspond with the books as follows: Doctor Syn (books 2 & 3), The Further Adventures of Doctor Syn (books 4 & 7), and The Last of Doctor Syn (book 1)
