In amongst the Tayler bits and pieces I picked up recently was a rough with ‘Avalanche’ penciled on the bottom. I thought it didn’t look like the cover I remembered and I was right. I can’t see a signature on my copy unless it’s under the price sticker.
While looking through all the David Tayler printer’s proofs I spotted something I’ve never seen before. ‘A Town Like Alice’ has a gold background to the title which I’m presuming was because this was intended to be on the 1,000th title published by PAN. Was it too expensive to actually use it, can anyone throw any light on it?
PAN published the first five titles in the ‘Yellowthread Steet’ series by William Marshall. He wrote 16 books about Detective Chief Inspector Harry Ffeifer of the Royal Hong Kong Police and there was a 13 part TV series loosely based on Marshall’s books in 1990. According to Wikipedia William Leonard Marshall was born in Sydney in 1944. He worked as a playwright, journalist, proofreader, and morgue attendant and was a teacher in an Irish prison. He was also the author of several series of police novels set across the globe and in various centuries. He lived in Hong Kong, Switzerland, Wales, Ireland, and USA, before returning to Australia in 1983 with his wife and daughter. He died in 2003.
