Shadows Before: The London Mystery Stories of L.P.

The Nameless Ones (1967 published in the US in 1968 as A Grave Matter).

Tell it to the Dead (1966, under the pseudonym Leslie Vardre published in the US in 1967 as The Reluctant Medium under the author's real name).

Man Out of Nowhere (1965 published in the US in 1966 as Who Is Lewis Pinder?).

Joshi's The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004). Plex running on a native 4:3 composite video player working extremely well as shown on my pink Zenith after finding a Roku Express+.

The paper dolls (1966 edition) Open Library It looks like you're offline.

The Paper Dolls (1964) was adapted by Hammer as an episode ('Paper Dolls') of its television series Journey to the Unknown (1968).ĭavies worked as a pharmacist, postmaster, optometrist, and gift shop owner, and served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in France, Italy and North Africa.Ī critical essay on Davies' novels can be found in S. Editions for The Paper Dolls: (Paperback published in 1967), (Mass Market Paperback published in 1968), 0451030273 (Paperback published in 1971), (Hardco. Davies, 1966, Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday edition, in English - 1st ed. (The premise of The Artificial Man resembles that of Dick's Time Out of Joint.) His protagonists frequently suffer from amnesia or other loss of identity, and their quest to find out who they really are drives the plot.ĭavies' novels The Artificial Man (1965) and Psychogeist (1966) were adapted into the 1968 film Project X, and The Alien (1968) was loosely adapted into the 1972 film The Groundstar Conspiracy. Themes ĭavies' books often deal with the manipulation of human consciousness, and in some ways are comparable to the works of Philip K. Thomas, Leslie Vardre, and Rowland Welch. Purnell Davies, Leo Berne, Richard Bridgeman, Morgan Evans, Ian Jefferson, Lawrence Phillips, Thomas Philips, G. He also wrote many short stories under several pseudonyms, including: L. Leslie Purnell Davies (20 October 1914 – 6 January 1988) was a British novelist whose works typically combine elements of horror, science fiction and mystery.

The Paper Dolls by L.P. Davies