Brighton Belle is a 1963 crime novel by the British writer Arthur La Bern.[1] The author had made his name with his 1945 debut It Always Rains on Sunday and had followed it up with several other bestsellers. Brighton Belle portrays the same low-life milieu as the earlier works, but with the setting shifted from London in the 1940s to the south coast resort of Brighton in the early 1960s.
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| Author | Arthur La Bern |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime |
| Publisher | William Allen |
Publication date | 1963 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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It was in a tradition of other earlier novels using Brighton as a seedy setting including Graham Greene's Brighton Rock and Patrick Hamilton's The West Pier.
References
edit- ^ Reilly p.920
Bibliography
edit- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
- The London Mystery Selection, Issues 56-59. N. Kark Publications., 1963.
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