{"id":1762,"date":"2016-09-03T09:53:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T09:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2016-09-03T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T09:53:11","slug":"crime-does-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/2016\/09\/03\/crime-does-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime DOES pay!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a brilliant idea of the British Library to publish crime novels by long-forgotten writers who in their day were popular but (until now) more or less forgotten. I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of recording a number in this successful serious. I recently recorded DEATH ON THE RIVIERA by John Bude. If the plot is a bit whacky then the larger-than-life characters are beautifully drawn and it&#8217;s all great fun. Just over a decade after this book was published, Gil North brought out the first of his Sergeant Cluff books. It&#8217;s called SGT CLUFF STANDS FIRM. This books couldn&#8217;t be more different from the delightful hokum of Bude&#8217;s novels. &#8220;Cluff&#8221; is set in the Yorkshire Dales and its gritty characters are as brooding as the landscape. Gil North&#8217;s style is spare, the mood dark and the character of the loner Cluff is beautifully drawn. The novels in this Classic Crime series have perceptive introductions by Martin Edwards, himself a master of the classic crimes genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a brilliant idea of the British Library to publish crime novels by long-forgotten writers who in their day were popular but (until now) more or less forgotten. I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of recording a number in this successful serious. I recently recorded DEATH ON THE RIVIERA by John Bude. If the plot is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}