{"id":18233,"date":"2026-03-30T06:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=18233"},"modified":"2026-03-30T06:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:40:35","slug":"sabotage-is-suspected-desmond-lowden-and-peter-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2026\/03\/30\/sabotage-is-suspected-desmond-lowden-and-peter-robinson\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Sabotage is Suspected’, Desmond Lowden and Peter Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week there are two David Tayler roughs for G201 ‘Sabotage is Suspected’<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span> by John Baker White. One is a pencil rough closer to the finished cover than the painted one which is completely different but does have the title written along the bottom edge. Baker White (12\/08\/1902 to 10\/12\/1988) was born in<\/span> West Malling, Kent. He became a very early member of the British Fascists when he undertook undercover operations for Sir George Makgill’s Industrial Intelligence Bureau. \u00a0In 1945 he was elected a Conservative politician and was a journalist and author. PAN also published his book G212 ‘The Big Lie’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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\"\"<\/a>This weeks random author is Desmond Lowden<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a>. Lowden (29\/09\/1937 to 19\/05\/2024) who was born in Winchester and went to St. Pilgrim’s School there. He started work at Pinewood and Shepperton Studios, first working as a runner and then moving on to assistant editor. Desmond travelled to work in the South of France as a deckhand and then to Crete as a TEFL teacher. He married his wife Gillian while in Athens, and the couple returned to Winchester, where they had two children. Lowden was award the ‘Silver Dagger’ in 1989. PAN published five on his novels one of which, ‘Bellman and True’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> was made into a film in 1988.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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A couple of blogs ago I mentioned ‘War Story’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Derek Robinson but the link went to the stamps in one copy of the book I have and not the cover as intended. Hopefully the link above is now the correct one. I’m wondering if anyone has a copy that doesn’t have a sticker over what I presume was the original price in Australia and were there other countries included? I was hoping it was an Australian printing but alas not the case.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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UPDATES<\/strong> Having mentioned ‘Skeletons’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Glendon Swarthout and how BookFinder mentioned there was a copy available but didn’t list where, my email to them must have done something as it appeared shortly after and I bought it to add to the page. I have also added three more ‘Donkey’<\/span><\/strong><\/a> books by Elisabeth Svendsen.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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