| |
| | JULIAN MACLAREN-ROSS: THE KING OF FITZROVIA |
 | | Ross became a fixture at the Wheatsheaf pub in Rathbone Place, Fitzrovia, holding court night after night to a host of mesmerized listeners as he acted out scenes from his favourite films, talked of future writing projects and inveighed against the crimes and shortcomings of publishers. |
 | | With his teddy-bear overcoat, dark mirror glasses, carnation and gold- or silver-topped cane this Ancient Mariner of the Forties was a "dangerous dandy" as the New Zealand writer Dan Davin called him. |
 | | Murders of people who knew too much were committed by a band of trained commando midgets, and the conspiracy's total aim was world domination, narrowly averted." Alas, the book never materialized, and the world of fantasy thrillers is clearly the poorer for it. |
| homepages.pavilion.co.uk /users/tartarus/maclaren-ross.html (1265 words) |
|