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H: Brighton Rock (1938)

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  " Look at me. I’ve never changed. It’s like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you’ll still read Brighton. That’s human nature."    31 chapters in seven parts [ wikipedia ]  reviews w/spoilers: [ ModRev ]  [ astrofella ] Whitsun 1938 = 05 June Charles 'Fred' Hale Kolley Kibber Pinkie Brown Ida Arnold Rose Snow's Spicer Colleoni Phil Corkery Cubitt  Dallow Frank Judy Prewitt Kite Crab  

Gn: Journey Without Maps (1936 nonfiction)

12 chapters in three parts  [ wikipedia ] [ goodreads ] [ editions/covers ] [ sister's pov ] Part 1 Chapter 1 THE WAY TO AFRICA Harvest Festival PART ONE 1 The Way to Africa Harvest Festival Blue Book But there are times of impatience Via Liverpool 2 The Cargo Ship Madeira Ballyhoo Las Palmas Graveyard Dakar The Shape of Africa To the Frontier The Way Back 3 The Home from Home Freetown The City Bar No Screws Unturned The Three Companions Up to Railhead Border Town Freedom to Travel PART TWO 1 Western Liberia The Forest Edge 2 His Excellency the President 3 Into Buzie Country 4 Black Montparnasse PART THREE 1 Mission Station 2 ‘Civilized Man’ 3 The Dictator of Grand Bassa 4 The Last Lap 5 Postscript in Monrovia

G: A Gun for Sale (1936)

 US title: This Gun for Hire eight chapters, 30 subsections [ wikipedia ] [ goodreads ] [ editions/covers ] reviews w/spoilers: [ astrofella ] Raven Jimmy Mather Anne Crowder Willie Davis Sir Marcus Saunders G11 G12 G13 G14 G15 G16 G21 G22 G23 G24 G25 G31 G32 G33 G34 G41 G42 G43 G44 G51 G52 G61 G62 G71 G72 G81 G82 G83 G84 G85

F: England Made Me (1935)

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 (also published as The Shipwrecked) 23 chapters in seven parts   [ wikipedia ] [ goodreads ] [ editions/covers ] reviews w/spoilers: [ astrofella ] Harrovian tie Claudette Colbert in a Roman bath The Four Just Men [ ebook ]   Anthony Farrant Kate Farrant Minty Erik Krogh: financier based on Ivar Kreuger (d 1932) Annette Maud Lucia Davidge Laurin Sir Ronald, the Minister Jim Hall Calloway Captain Gullie