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The Sexton Blake Detective Library
The first four novels in the Sexton Blake Library, 1st series. Contains The Yellow Tiger · G. H. Teed · Ill-Gotten Gains · Andrew Murray · The Shadow of His Crime · John W. Bobin · The Rajah's Revenge · Andrew Murray · The League of Crime · Anon. (Matthews/Heade)
304 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 1989
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About the author
Mike Higgs
102 books4 followersMike Higgs is the artist of the successful strip 'The Cloak', that appeared in the Oddhams Press weekly Pow! (1967-68) and Smash! (1968-69). He drew 'Space School' for Whizzer & Chips, 'Thundercap' for Buster, and for amateur publications like Ka-Pow and Unicorn ('Tales from a Distant Star', 'The Barbarian'). Higgs also created the daily strip 'Moonbird' for various Associated Newspapers titles, and later in a series of children's books.
Higgs eventually moved on to design books for among others Hawk Books, including the reprints of Eagle 'Dan Dare' pages, 'Comics at War', 'The Comic Art of Charlie Chaplin', 'Popeye: the 60th Anniversary Collection' and 'The Monster Society of Evil'.
source: Lambiek Comiclopedia
Higgs eventually moved on to design books for among others Hawk Books, including the reprints of Eagle 'Dan Dare' pages, 'Comics at War', 'The Comic Art of Charlie Chaplin', 'Popeye: the 60th Anniversary Collection' and 'The Monster Society of Evil'.
source: Lambiek Comiclopedia
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March 30, 2022
Well what can I say! Sexton Blake was one of my father's favourite books, well comics I think they were initially. I came across this book in a charity shop at a property open to the public. I thought it was a bit of a hefty price to pay for it but it reminded me of my dad.
This is a HUGE book, overly sized in my opinion! It has virtually no white (well yellow) space around any of the edges of the pages, and the type is so so small that I had to resort to a ruler underneath each line to be able to read it and keep my place. I couldn't find a 12in ruler so had to resort to a 6in which wasn't long enough. However I am glad I stuck with it.
This is a compilation of the first 4 books in the Sexton Blake series: The Yellow Tiger; Ill-gotten Gains; The Shadow of his Crime; The Rajah's Revenge"; and a comic strip entitled "The League of Crime".
To my surprise I was spellbound during each of these stories, and even the comic strip at one point, short though the strip was. Each of the books was well written around the time of the first world war and a little before. Sexton Blake was a rich man (obviously) with a lot of time and money on his hands, and he was an adventurer at heart fighting the baddies and restoring lives to the goodies. I admit to reading some chapters during the night as I didn't want to put down my ruler and the book to see what happened next!!
I did have to bite the bullet a bit as obviously they were written in times where ladies were ladies and men were beholden to be gentlemen, and racist was rife really. Celestials I think was the name for the yellow men (Chinese) and orientals were for people of say India? Not quite sure who he was referring to there. But the last line of the last book made me take a sharp intake of breath when Sexton saved the lives of two oriental men who had stolen the Rajah's jewels and were incarcerated in a prison with an unfed tiger beneath them reaching for them through the bars and getting closer to them each day. Sexton's assistant Tinker was surprised that he had gone to great lengths to save the men who would have been hanged in England, and he had allowed them to escape from his care after he had released them. His last line was "I only thought of them as white men, men of my own race, and the white man must always be upheld if the white men are to remain rulers of the world". 'A speech that went far to explain all that had happened'. But. You do have to place these books in time context, a context which we wouldn't hold to today.
I would actually recommend reading these books, if only to give light to the world of that time! I did like his car and his very strange plane! Well I think his futuristic plane was the best!!
This is a HUGE book, overly sized in my opinion! It has virtually no white (well yellow) space around any of the edges of the pages, and the type is so so small that I had to resort to a ruler underneath each line to be able to read it and keep my place. I couldn't find a 12in ruler so had to resort to a 6in which wasn't long enough. However I am glad I stuck with it.
This is a compilation of the first 4 books in the Sexton Blake series: The Yellow Tiger; Ill-gotten Gains; The Shadow of his Crime; The Rajah's Revenge"; and a comic strip entitled "The League of Crime".
To my surprise I was spellbound during each of these stories, and even the comic strip at one point, short though the strip was. Each of the books was well written around the time of the first world war and a little before. Sexton Blake was a rich man (obviously) with a lot of time and money on his hands, and he was an adventurer at heart fighting the baddies and restoring lives to the goodies. I admit to reading some chapters during the night as I didn't want to put down my ruler and the book to see what happened next!!
I did have to bite the bullet a bit as obviously they were written in times where ladies were ladies and men were beholden to be gentlemen, and racist was rife really. Celestials I think was the name for the yellow men (Chinese) and orientals were for people of say India? Not quite sure who he was referring to there. But the last line of the last book made me take a sharp intake of breath when Sexton saved the lives of two oriental men who had stolen the Rajah's jewels and were incarcerated in a prison with an unfed tiger beneath them reaching for them through the bars and getting closer to them each day. Sexton's assistant Tinker was surprised that he had gone to great lengths to save the men who would have been hanged in England, and he had allowed them to escape from his care after he had released them. His last line was "I only thought of them as white men, men of my own race, and the white man must always be upheld if the white men are to remain rulers of the world". 'A speech that went far to explain all that had happened'. But. You do have to place these books in time context, a context which we wouldn't hold to today.
I would actually recommend reading these books, if only to give light to the world of that time! I did like his car and his very strange plane! Well I think his futuristic plane was the best!!
August 14, 2022
Did not age well at all.
The Sherlock Holmes stories manage to do much better.
The Sherlock Holmes stories manage to do much better.
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