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'''I Was Following This Girl''', published in 1967, is the second of three [[Thriller|thrillers]] by the English novelist [[Desmond Skirrow]] about [[John Brock]], an irreverent but very, very tough advertising executive who is also a sometime undercover agent.<ref>''I Was Following This Girl'', The Bodley Head, London, 1967; Doubleday, New York, 1968, ISBN 0552081159;</ref> Published in England by [[The Bodley Head]] and in the United States by [[Lippincott]], it is a little under 80,000 words in length and quite clearly inferior to the first of the Brock novels, ''It Won't Get You Anywhere''.<ref>''[[It Won't Get You Anywhere]]'', The Bodley Head, London, 1966; Lippincott, New York, 1966, ISBN 0552079111</ref> (Skirrow, about whom little is known, came relatively late to writing, published only five novels in a three-year span, and died in his early fifties.) | '''I Was Following This Girl''', published in 1967, is the second of three [[Thriller|thrillers]] by the English novelist [[Desmond Skirrow]] about [[John Brock]], an irreverent but very, very tough advertising executive who is also a sometime undercover agent.<ref>''I Was Following This Girl'', The Bodley Head, London, 1967; Doubleday, New York, 1968, ISBN 0552081159;</ref> Published in England by [[The Bodley Head]] and in the United States by [[Lippincott]], it is a little under 80,000 words in length and quite clearly inferior to the first of the Brock novels, ''It Won't Get You Anywhere''.<ref>''[[It Won't Get You Anywhere]]'', The Bodley Head, London, 1966; Lippincott, New York, 1966, ISBN 0552079111</ref> (Skirrow, about whom little is known, came relatively late to writing, published only five novels in a three-year span, and died in his early fifties.) Many of the early parts of the book seem more like social satire of the so-called [[Swinging London]] scene of the mid- and late-1960s than conventional crime fiction. | ||
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Revision as of 19:56, 21 May 2009
I Was Following This Girl, published in 1967, is the second of three thrillers by the English novelist Desmond Skirrow about John Brock, an irreverent but very, very tough advertising executive who is also a sometime undercover agent.[1] Published in England by The Bodley Head and in the United States by Lippincott, it is a little under 80,000 words in length and quite clearly inferior to the first of the Brock novels, It Won't Get You Anywhere.[2] (Skirrow, about whom little is known, came relatively late to writing, published only five novels in a three-year span, and died in his early fifties.) Many of the early parts of the book seem more like social satire of the so-called Swinging London scene of the mid- and late-1960s than conventional crime fiction.
References
- ↑ I Was Following This Girl, The Bodley Head, London, 1967; Doubleday, New York, 1968, ISBN 0552081159;
- ↑ It Won't Get You Anywhere, The Bodley Head, London, 1966; Lippincott, New York, 1966, ISBN 0552079111