Roseland

I think that any screen adaptation of a novel should be a serial.

Ian Fleming, From Russia, With Love (London, 1964):

PART ONE: THE PLAN, pp. 7-77.

CHAPTERs 1-10, about Bond's enemies in Russia.

 

PART TWO: THE EXECUTION, pp. 78-208.

CHAPTERs 11-28, beginning with Bond waking up and ending with his apparent death above the words, "THE END"

 

CHAPTER 1, "ROSELAND," CHAPTER 2, "THE SLAUGHTERER," and CHAPTER 3, "POST-GRADUATE STUDIES," summarize the life and career of Donovan Grant, Chief Executioner of SMERSH, and would make a good film, "Roseland," to precede dramatizations of subsequent chapters.

Problems

 Testing:

I had better give notice here that, since "Blogger" changed, I have been having problems with posting. Currently, if I click to create a new post on any of my other blogs, the screen changes to allow me to create a post on this, the Poul Anderson Appreciation, blog, not on the blog where I want to post. If this situation persists, then I will not, for example, be able to transfer articles to the Poul Anderson: Contributor Articles blog. I have, of course, gone onto a "Help" page and tried to communicate the problem but am not sure whether my message has been sent and, in any case, based on past experience, do not expect any reply. I am taking this opportunity to inform blog readers that there are problems just in case the problems get worse and I become unable to post here as well. I will switch the lap top off for a while and switch back on again later for what that is worth.

Two Spies In Green Hats

"...he took off his hat, a narrow-brimmed, dark-green English felt hat..."

-Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest (London, 2007), CHAPTER 5, p. 195.

 

Thus, two fictional spies wear a green hat, one in THRUSH, the other in Swedish Internal Security.

 

Did Larsson have this UNCLE film in mind?

Chandos, Mansel And Others

Nine novels by Dornford Yates are narrated by Richard Chandos and seven of them also feature Jonathan Mansel.

Gale Warning, narrated by John Bagot, features both Chandos and Mansel.

Shoal Water, narrated by Jeremy Solon, features Mansel.

Three other thrillers by Yates, She Painted Her Face, Safe Custody and Storm Music, feature neither Chandos nor Mansel but are connected in other ways

Mansel is in the Berry Books and elsewhere as "Jonah."