Our random author of the week is E E Vielle. Eugene Emile “Tubby” Vielle OBE (29/4/1913 to 02/04/2015). He was born in Lambeth and his early education was at Dulwich College while later he was admitted to the Royal Air Force College Cranwell. From there Viellee joined the Royal Air Force where he flew as many as 150 different types of aircraft before retiring from the RAF in 1957 as a group captain. He wrote eight books of which PAN published two, namely ‘The Shadow of Kuril’ and ‘No Subway’ Has anyone any idea as to who the cover artist might be?
This weeks David Tayler rough is for ‘Gale Force’ by Elleston Trevor. He was born Trevor Dudley-Smith on the 17th February 1920 and died 21st July 1995. Trevor was a novelist and playwright who wrote under several pseudonyms including a series of Cold War thrillers featuring the British secret agent Quiller, written under the pseudonym Adam Hall. Trevor wrote over 100 books under names such as Simon Rattray, Howard North, Roger Fitzalan, Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith and Lesley Stone. PAN published at least ten of his novels I can think of off the top of my head. I may have to make a page to include them all.
Back in 1967 Signal Toothpaste gave away 12 PAN Book titles which they claimed were by world famous authors and they are probably right. To get one you needed to sent the ends of three toothpaste packets but they also listed other PAN titles that could be bought. I’m wondering if the give away copies were special promotional ones or just standard pritings?