EQMM 1948-02 by Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine

Author:Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The adventures of Romney Pringle:

The Foreign Office Despatch

by Clifford Ashdown

Just to remind you: In the January 1947 issue of EQMM we brought you the first adventure of Romney Pringle ever published in the United States. It derived from the rarest book, of detective-crime short stories issued in the Twentieth Century — a fabulous volume published in 1902 of which only four copies are known to exist (although it is now probable that a fifth copy has been discovered in South Africa). The author s identity is only half-known: Clifford Ashdown was a pseudonym used jointly by R. Austin Freeman, creator of Dr. Thomdyke, and a medical confrere; there is some hope, we learn, that P. M. Stone of Waltham, Massachusetts, has succeeded in unmasking Dr. Freeman’s collaborator. As for the character of Romney Pringle himself you will recall that he is a “gentleman crook” who hides behind the respectable front of “literary agent.” A suave and charming scoundrel, addicted to an artificial port-wine mark on his right cheek, Mr. Pringle found fortune, if not fame, at his very beck and call and eventually retired to a life of ease and comfort at Sandwich where, of course, he wrote his memoirs — of which “The Foreign Office Despatch” is the second to appear in America.

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