Uncle George Posted 4 January , 2018 Share Posted 4 January , 2018 19 minutes ago, seaJane said: Looks uncannily like Dorothy L. Sayers ... It is indeed. Her creation Lord Peter Wimsey served in the Rifle Brigade during the Great War, was severely wounded and suffered a breakdown. Wikipedia tells us that: "After the war he was ill for many months, recovering at the family's ancestral home in Duke's Denver ... Wimsey was for a time unable to give servants any orders whatsoever, since his wartime experience made him associate the giving of an order with causing the death of the person to whom the order was given. [His former sergeant] Bunter arrived and, with the approval of the Dowager Duchess, took up his post as valet. Bunter moved Wimsey to a London flat at 110A Piccadilly, W1, while Wimsey recovered. Even much later, however, Wimsey would have relapses—especially when his actions caused a murderer to be hanged. As noted in 'Whose Body?', on such occasions Bunter would take care of Wimsey and tenderly put him to bed, and they would revert to being "Major Wimsey" and "Sergeant Bunter". Image from here: https://voegelinview.com/the-inkling-who-wasn-t-there/ 22 minutes ago, neverforget said: That is surely a woman? Indeed it is. One can tell that we are on the theme of great detectives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 4 January , 2018 Share Posted 4 January , 2018 13 minutes ago, Uncle George said: Indeed it is. One can tell that we are on the theme of great detectives Or novelists??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaySearching Posted 4 January , 2018 Share Posted 4 January , 2018 Was he a conscious objector ? Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 4 January , 2018 Share Posted 4 January , 2018 Just now, RaySearching said: Was he a conscious objector ? Ray He was indeed Ray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaySearching Posted 4 January , 2018 Share Posted 4 January , 2018 we will let it run then Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 4 January , 2018 Share Posted 4 January , 2018 Mr. Gunn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 4 January , 2018 Share Posted 4 January , 2018 Is he Aldous Huxley? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 4 January , 2018 Share Posted 4 January , 2018 Sullivan Gunn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 4 January , 2018 Share Posted 4 January , 2018 1 hour ago, Uncle George said: Is he Aldous Huxley? 45 minutes ago, Knotty said: Sullivan Gunn? No and no gents. He had a couple of affairs with high profile women. One was the wife of a very well known Royal Navy officer, (who was particulary famous in a different role) and the other was the wife of a very well known novelist and playwright. He eventually married one of them. "Mr Gunn" had a brief career as an actor before settling as an author. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 4 January , 2018 Share Posted 4 January , 2018 (edited) After embarking on yet another marital affair, his marriage came to an end in 1918, and he ended up living with his mistress and her husband in a menage a trois. From this point he descended into mental illness, and spent the rest of his life in a sanatorium. Think Peter Pan, and the Antarctic. Add a George Bernard Shaw play, and you have him. There you are: More clues than you could shake a stick at. (Not a clue.) Off to bed shortly. 4.15 start in the morning. Edited 4 January , 2018 by neverforget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helpjpl Posted 4 January , 2018 Share Posted 4 January , 2018 2 hours ago, neverforget said: After embarking on yet another marital affair, his marriage came to an end in 1918, and he ended up living with his mistress and her husband in a menage a trois. From this point he descended into mental illness, and spent the rest of his life in a sanatorium. Think Peter Pan, and the Antarctic. Add a George Bernard Shaw play, and you have him. Gilbert Cannan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Cannan JP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 4 January , 2018 Share Posted 4 January , 2018 Sullivan Gunn in post#7950 is a play on words Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 4 January , 2018 Share Posted 4 January , 2018 This really isn't fair of me (mea culpa, mea maxime culpa), but he was a detective story writer and he did serve in my area of interest ... the photograph [thumbnail from owner site] wasn't taken until 1939. sJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 5 January , 2018 Share Posted 5 January , 2018 6 hours ago, helpjpl said: Gilbert Cannan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Cannan JP Cannan is correct JP. Your link to his wiki page tells all. My picture was taken from here: https://goo.gl/images/TaYgXa 6 hours ago, Knotty said: Sullivan Gunn in post#7950 is a play on words Sorry John I was too dumb to spot that. Clearly you knew who he was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 5 January , 2018 Share Posted 5 January , 2018 9 hours ago, seaJane said: This really isn't fair of me (mea culpa, mea maxime culpa), but he was a detective story writer and he did serve in my area of interest ... the photograph [thumbnail from owner site] wasn't taken until 1939. sJ Is this John Rhode? AKA John Street? He wrote the Dr Priestley novels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 5 January , 2018 Share Posted 5 January , 2018 It isn't. He kept his name, but the National Portrait Gallery seems totally unaware of his professional life as an expert on anaesthesia. I have asked about / mentioned him on the GWF in the past, a clue which may make you smell a rat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 5 January , 2018 Share Posted 5 January , 2018 (edited) 18 minutes ago, seaJane said: It isn't. He kept his name, but the National Portrait Gallery seems totally unaware of his professional life as an expert on anaesthesia. I have asked about / mentioned him on the GWF in the past, a clue which may make you smell a rat. Is it George Washington Crile sJ ? EDIT: Or perhaps George Crile jnr. Edited 5 January , 2018 by neverforget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 5 January , 2018 Share Posted 5 January , 2018 (edited) Is it Alfred Walter Stewart ? (a play on the smell of rat stew) Edited 5 January , 2018 by Knotty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 5 January , 2018 Share Posted 5 January , 2018 Neither. You may have to go rat-hunting in my posts xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 5 January , 2018 Share Posted 5 January , 2018 How about A.J. Cronin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 5 January , 2018 Share Posted 5 January , 2018 While we wait for sJ to confirm, who is this writer of crime fiction ? ? ?. He had a very interesting life (and death): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 5 January , 2018 Share Posted 5 January , 2018 Not Cronin, although he did indeed join up as another surgeon probationer RNVR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 5 January , 2018 Share Posted 5 January , 2018 Cyril Tawney, coincidentally, wrote a song called Stanley the Rat, although my WIT had trouble with a rat rather than being one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 6 January , 2018 Share Posted 6 January , 2018 10 hours ago, seaJane said: Cyril Tawney, coincidentally, wrote a song called Stanley the Rat, although my WIT had trouble with a rat rather than being one. William Stanley Sykes? Author of Essays on the First Hundred Years of Anaesthesia, and also three detective novels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 6 January , 2018 Share Posted 6 January , 2018 10 hours ago, Uncle George said: While we wait for sJ to confirm, who is this writer of crime fiction ? ? ?. He had a very interesting life (and death): Wild guess: Dashiell Hammett? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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