[QUOTE=IAN DAVID FRYER;375415]
Originally Posted by
Ged
I too have just bought Tom Slemen's book - Murder on Merseyside, published by regular Yo Contributor Colin Wilkinson of Bluecoat Press.
A couple of things ive notice right away is that TS says WHW attended the chess club almost every week though he had missed several weeks before the murder which may prove to be vital (as in would Qualthrough had known he was definitely going that night and thereby receive his message. The chess tie he was due to play meant nothing as he'd missed previous ones and was playing catch up. However, I wonder if this tie HAD to be played by that night or he'd forfeit his place?
I will report back. What did you conclude of it Ian, I notice you call it a fantasy.
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Hi Ged.. YES as a pure "pot-boiler" its not a bad read..I'm actually interested in one or two of the other murders covered(ie.The Hanging-Boy Case in Edge Lane in 1948) With his WALLACE chapter, I wish he'd have just covered the case with as much as is known at present..instead of trying to solve it...especially fingering the JOHNSTON's..with no evidence whatsoever... he might just as well as "fingered" poor Alan Close the milkboy or Hubert Moore ..hence in my opinion... "FANTASY"!! Your point about WHW not being too regular at the Chess Club in the previous weeks is a good one.You know I feel PARRY is QUALTROUGH(he ticks all the boxes!)...but if he was in league with WHW,then he must have had prior knowledge that WHW would be presnt about 7.45..& so the alibi begins.... FJumble
Hi again GED.I recently picked up a fine 1969 1st edn copy of GOODMAN in nice dustjacket,a book I've been after for a long time.I checked my existing copy & its a 1976 "Revised" edn..though I cant see any difference..no obvious changes to lay-out or Illust etc.I know I have a recent paperback edn. somewhere which might possibly have been updated(?) Anyway,in the back of my old 1976 book I found the TOM SLEMEN original newspaper article from 2001(I cant believe its 10 years ago!!) & the headline screams"WE SOLVE WALLACE MURDER RIDDLE"..which of course is a bit different to the conclusion of his piece in MURDER MERSEYSIDE which ends with : "It would of course be terribly arrogant of me to claim that I had solved the Wallace Murder Case." You're telling me!! IAN
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