More Zenith online

[Sexton Blake]

Greetings

Just to let you know that two more Sexton Blake adventures starring Zenith the Albino are available in PDF format at http://www.sextonblake.co.uk:

THE STRANGE CASE OF THE JIG-SAW PUZZLE
and
THE HUMBER WOODYARD MYSTERY

This brings the total to 35. I have a few more to add but I'm off to Spain for a week to celebrate a friend's 90th birthday (!), so there'll be a pause while I'm away.

The beginnings of a Zenith profile have also been added: http://www.sextonblake.co.uk/zenith.html (though this should very much be regarded as 'work in progress').

Elsewhere on the site a great deal of information has been added to the bibliography pages, including at least 10 new reviews (I'm reading through Blake stories at a rapid rate and I forget how many new reviews have been posted this past week or so) plus lots of info about some of the authors.

Lots of other stuff waiting to be added but it'll have to wait.

Enjoy!

[Michael Moorcock]

Oh, wow! Another one (Jigsaw) I don't think I've read. Hope I'll be able to get hold of this site while I'm away. It'll be dial up and limited at that, but I'm hoping! Have a great time in Spain.
Thanks again, pard.

[Thongor]

Whoa, thanks, Sexton! You are the man.

[Michael Moorcock]

Jigsaw Puzzle has added AIRSHIP action... Great stuff, Sexton!

[Sexton Blake]

Just to let you know - I've just uploaded a big update to the Sexton Blake website. Probably of most interest to my fellow Moorcockians (Moorcockanites? Moorcockologists? Moorcockonauts?) will be the two additions to the Zenith the Albino PDF files:

THE VAULT OF DOOM (The Sexton Blake Library 2nd series 281)
and
THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF THE MANTEL REGISTER GRATE (Union Jack 1,139)

Other updates include 80 issues of THE MARVEL, 77 issues of DREADNOUGHT and quite a few issues of BOYS' FRIEND added to the bibliography. More notes and reviews have also been added to the bibliography pages.
New articles include SIXTY YEARS OF SEXTON BLAKE parts 1, 2 & 3 by Walter Webb (written in the mid-50s), THE STORY OF THE DRAMATISATION OF "SEXTON BLAKE" by John East (which concerns the earliest Blake theatre production), plus criminal profiles (all work in progress) of:

GEORGE MARSDEN PLUMMER
LEON KESTREL
DOCTOR HUXTON RYMER
THE CRIMINALS' CONFEDERATION
THE THREE MUSKETEERS
ZENITH THE ALBINO
AUBREY DEXTER
THE COUNCIL OF ELEVEN

More profiles and features are currently in preparation.

I recently purchased bound copies of the Collectors Digest covering the years 1949 to 1980 -- and they are PACKED with information and trivia about Blake... so there will be regular updates to the site over the next few weeks as I read through them.

As always, comments, criticisms and corrrections are always welcome.

[GuyLawley]

Remind me Sexton; are you also jamestilletoblade?

I want to avoid bidding against you on eBay if I can!

Cheers,

Guy

[Sexton Blake]

I am, yes. Remember, if there's a Blake I purchase from ebay which you wanted, you only have to ask and I'll send you a PDF copy.

[GuyLawley]

Thanks. I look forward to them coming to the web site anyway (they will mostly be Zenith stories).

As an old-fashioned sort of chap I do like to own a rusty-stapled paper original where possible!

[Sexton Blake]

Me too... though the staples are quickly removed and thrown away whenever an issue is added to the collection. All sorts of blood poisoning enters my body from beneath my fingernails as I grapple with those demonic little clips.

It's true - I've mostly made Zenith stories available so far... but that's because visitors to Moorcock's Miscellany are more interested in Zenith and my site has been extremely well-supported by Mike and Berry... so I feel it's only right to treat 'em to a nice big dose of Albinoism in return. But if there are other characters/stories you'd like to see, you only have to say. I'll happily supply however much my server space can handle - and when the server starts groaning, I'll start publishing by rotation, so to speak.

[Michael Moorcock]

Aaargh. And me with a clunky dial-up at the moment. I'm going to have to do what it takes or just reconcile myself to not being able to read the stories until I get back to Texas. Woe!
I'm very fond of Teed, I must say, and especially the Roxanne stories.
I think Teed wrote the sexiest Blake stories (mild and romantic as they were by modern standards) and after Zenith his stories with female leads are probably my favourites. Even better if Plummer and Rymer are involved in the plot. That said, I have a fondness for London-based stories in the main and Skene was often at his best in a metropolitan setting.
Anyway, thanks Sexton. You're a diamond!

[Thongor]

Though I enjoy the supervillains, I have to say that as a fan of detective stories, I probably find the Lady Molly stories to be the most fun since they usually turn on pure deduction. I'd like to see more of that sort of short mystery. There really are some very good puzzles presented in these stories.

Charles

[Sexton Blake]

And the shorter stories are excellent for reading online too. Easily devoured whole during a lunchbreak!

There are hundreds of them in ANSWERS and PENNY PICTORIAL, so I shall turn my attention to them get get a few more online in due course.

Where Zenith is concerned, I still have a few more UNION JACKs to reproduce and I just took delivery of two SBLs: THE RADIUM PROFITEER and THE DEATH OF FOUR, which I suspect Mike might like to see online!

[Thongor]

Great, Sexton! I'll look forward to more mysteries!

[Michael Moorcock]

Oh, Christ! When am I going to do any work!!???
What the hell. Berry's kindly copied 'em to disc for me so I'll be able to read 'em in about a week or so. And you're right, Sexton, I haven't read those SBL Zeniths. Lordy, lord. What a great time it is to be alive!

[Whiskers]

I've posted that CD to you, Mike, an hour ago. The postal guy said you should have it in hand by Friday.