Английская Википедия:Death's Mannikins

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Шаблон:Infobox book Death's Mannikins is a 1937 Australian novel by Max Afford.[1] It was the second Jeffrey Blackburn novel following Blood on His Hands.[2]

The book was originally known as Death Plays with Dolls. Afford said the plot took two months to work out.[3] He wrote it while waiting to hear if his first Blackburn novel had been accepted. Unlike Blood on His Hands, this one had an English setting.[4]

The novel was published in London eight weeks after Blood on his Hands.[5]

The Australasian said the book "fulfils the expectations raised by its description as "a series of macabre murders." They are macabre enough, and being staged, in a gloomy Exmoor valley should satisfy the most avid pursuer of the thriller."[6]

The book was read on radio in serialised form in 1939.[7] It was republished in 1945.[8]

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  1. Michael J. Tolley, 'Afford, Malcolm (Max) (1906–1954)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/afford-malcolm-max-9315/text16349, published first in hardcopy 1993, accessed online 4 January 2024.
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