FICTION
Val Henry Gielgud
Also known as: Val Gielgud
Val Henry Gielgud (28 April 1900 – 30 November 1981) was an English actor, writer, director and broadcaster. He was a pioneer of radio drama for the BBC, and also directed the first ever drama to be produced in the newer medium of television. Val Gielgud was born in London, into a theatrical family, being the brother of Sir John Gielgud (who acted in several of his productions) and a great-nephew of the Victorian actress Dame Ellen Terry.
Most acclaimed
Through a glass darkly
"After the American Civil War, while bodies still littered battlefields, the movement known as Spiritualism began to sweep across America as thousands of people, mostly from shock and grief, tried to make contact with the recently departed. The movement captivated Europe as well, especially England in the aftermath of the Great War and Great Influenza Epidemic...The movement's most famous spokesman was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Known to the world as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Doyle underwent what many people at the time considered an enigmatic transformation, turning his back on the hyper-rational Holmes and plunging into the supernatural. What was it that convinced a brilliant man like Doyle, the creator of the great exemplar of cold, objective thought, that there was a reality beyond the reality?...Using the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as a lens, Bechtel probes this largely unexplored movement, a movement rife with fraud but also full of genuine evidence that is difficult to dismiss..."--
The Broken Men
Diana Henderson, beautiful and desperately in need of money, accepts a job in an international club of former aristocrats known as The Broken Men. Simon Astley, her would-be fiancé, is suspicious of the club members and insists on following her. Bit by bit, the dark aims of the club grow clear. Diana and Simon, fighting against The Broken Men, are plunged into a whirlpool of breath-taking adventure. Opposed to them is an insidious enemy possessing all the diplomatic cunning of the old world, but armed with the scientific inventions of the new. On the frontier of Poland a charge of the Polish lancers decides a wavering battle and two daring pilots fight a desperate duel in the air. As in Old Swords, Val Gielgud is again writing of his favorite scenes in his favorite vein.
Death at Broadcasting House (Black Dagger Crime)
>A live transmission of a play is underway at Broadcasting House. Actor Sidney Parson performs well in the scene in which he is murdered. But then his body is discovered in Studio 7C. It turns out the murder was for real, and that everyone who listened to the play had heard him die again.