Comment upon writing style of victor canning
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Comment upon writing style of victor canning
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Victor Canning (16 June 1911 – 21 February 1986) was a prolific British writer of novels and thrillers who flourished in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He was personally reticent, writing no memoirs and giving relatively few newspaper interviews.
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victor canning resumed writing with The Chasm (1947), a novel about identifying a Nazi collaborator who has hidden himself in a remote Italian village. A film of this was put into production but never finished. Canning’s next book, Panthers’ Moon, was filmed as Spy Hunt, and from now on Canning was established as someone who could write a book a year in the suspense genre, have them reliably appear in book club and paperback editions on both sides of the Atlantic, be translated into the main European languages, and in many cases get filmed. He himself spent five months in 1952 in Hollywood working on scripts for movies of his own books and on TV shows. The money earned from the film of The Golden Salamander (filmed with Trevor Howard) meant that Canning could buy a substantial country house with some land in Kent, Marle Place, where he lived for nearly twenty years and where his daughter continues to live now. From the mid 1950s onwards his books became more conventional, full of exotic settings, stirring action sequences and stock characters. During the 1950s and '60s Canning also wrote dozens of short stories for the pulp fiction magazines, Argosy, Suspense, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, John Bull, Saturday Evening Post, This Week, and probably others. I have tracked down over a hundred of these, and I suspect there are many more. There were also about two dozen television scripts for the BBC and Rediffusion. In 1963 he switched publishers from Hodder and Stoughton to Heinemann. Heinemann also bought the rights to the back list, and in the 1970s began to bring out a Uniform Edition set of reprints that included most of the early work (excluding the Alan Gould novels). It appears they did not sell very well, since very few of them turn up on the second-hand market. In 1965 he began a series of four books featuring a private detective called Rex Carver, and these were among his most successful in sales terms.