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Trial of Strength

by Celia Dale
Trial of Strength by Celia Dale
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This is a highly dramatic and up-to-date story set in Fleet Street. A powerful London newspaper sends a journalist behind the Iron Curtain. He is arrested and set to prison, from which no word comes.
This, and the subsequent events to secure the man's release, is as natural as life and rattles along at a spanking pace building up to a terrific climax.

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Release date: 1955

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Celia Dale

Celia Dale

Not very much is known about the author Celia Dale except for a few scant details. Celia Dale was born in 1912 and she was daughter of the actor, James Dale and was married to the journalist and critic, Guy Ramsey until his death in 1959. She worked in Fleet Street and as a publishers adviser and book reviewer. Some of her books were dramatised on radio and TV. Dales first book appeared in 1943 but it was her later novels where she branched out in to the realms of psychological crime. In all, Dale produced thirteen novels and a collection of short stories.

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Celia Dale took everyday domestic situations and gave them a bitter twist. In Helping with Enquiries there are only three main protagonists, their story revolving around the murder of the mother. In A Helping Hand the vulnerability of the elderly is masterfully portrayed. Dale won the 1986 Crime Writers Association Veuve Cliquot Short Story Award for Lines of Communication which appears in her short story collection, A Personal Call and other stories which show that Dale had the short story down to a fine art. Her final book in 1988 was Sheeps Clothing.

Celia Dale died on the 31st December 2011, just short of her hundredth birthday. - Excerpted from FantasticFiction

More books by Celia Dale

A Personal Call and Other Stories
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Sheep's Clothing (Herald Classics)
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The Deception
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The Innocent Party
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A Dark Corner
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Act of Love
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A Helping Hand
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A Spring of Love
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The Least of These
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