![]() He and his publisher A.S.Frere were arrested on the criminal charge of obscene libel and tried three times at the Old Bailey. ![]() His second, The Image and the Search, was his last. His first novel Look Down in Mercy is regarded as one of the classic books of the Second World War. This particular quest is for information on the novelist Walter Baxter. The files I was looking for were all to hand. ![]() I had a well-lit room to myself, a photocopier and plate of biscuits, and hot tea flowed through the whole visit. My welcome from Jean Rose, the archivist, was jolly. ![]() I expected some discreet door into an anonymous building but in fact the Random House name is emblazoned on a large warehouse that dominates a roundabout. Random House has its library and archive there. I put on my biographer’s boots today, and they took me north of London to Rushden. ![]()
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