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Speaking of fabrications, I have my doubts about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Howel_Evans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Howel_Evans and his Poirot

Speaking of fabrications, I have my doubts about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Howel_Evans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Howel_Evans and his Poirot forerunner Jules Poiret ( https://www.goodreads.com/series/149474-jules-poiret https://www.goodreads.com/series/149474-jules-poiret ) Seems a little too pat, popped up a few years ago, never heard of before. The text of the ebooks is respectable, but may give off a whiff of anachronism in places. If anyone in the UK feels like checking a library ...

aaron695 3y ago
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qingcharles 3y ago
Surely you can just check eBay, Abebooks and the like?
- B1FF_PSUVM 3y ago
  Looks pretty sketchy in https://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=Frank+Howel+Evans&searchtype=newwork_titles&sortchoice=0 https://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=Frank+Howel+E... - no library records, etc. Ebay tosses up unrelated baseball cards and comics. Abebooks yields four sketchy hits, e.g. one is "print-on-demand" with a fake pic of a leather binding.
  - qingcharles 3y ago
    I have to agree. This is weird as fuck, honestly. So what you are proposing, and I am perhaps agreeing with, is that someone has created a bunch of random ebooks and then invented a backstory for the fake author?
plibblr 3y ago
Interesting, you might be onto something, the series of books looks plausible and somehow not-quite-right. My local UK library doesn't have any books by that author - https://libraries.hounslow.gov.uk/client/en_GB/hounslow/search/results?qu=frank+howel+evans&te=&lm=HOUNSLOW https://libraries.hounslow.gov.uk/client/en_GB/hounslow/sear... . This one in particular seems too implausible - inspiration for Poirot and Downton Abbey? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23309690-down-to-the-abbey https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23309690-down-to-the-abb... I haven't actually read any of the ebooks mind.
- B1FF_PSUVM 3y ago
  > seems too implausible Good catch. Also, Christie has been written about for decades and no one ever mentioned this alleged 'forerunner' which is just about a clone ... Thanks for looking.

aaron695 3y ago

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qingcharles 3y ago

Surely you can just check eBay, Abebooks and the like?

B1FF_PSUVM 3y ago
Looks pretty sketchy in https://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=Frank+Howel+Evans&searchtype=newwork_titles&sortchoice=0 https://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=Frank+Howel+E... - no library records, etc. Ebay tosses up unrelated baseball cards and comics. Abebooks yields four sketchy hits, e.g. one is "print-on-demand" with a fake pic of a leather binding.
- qingcharles 3y ago
  I have to agree. This is weird as fuck, honestly. So what you are proposing, and I am perhaps agreeing with, is that someone has created a bunch of random ebooks and then invented a backstory for the fake author?

plibblr 3y ago

Interesting, you might be onto something, the series of books looks plausible and somehow not-quite-right. My local UK library doesn't have any books by that author - https://libraries.hounslow.gov.uk/client/en_GB/hounslow/search/results?qu=frank+howel+evans&te=&lm=HOUNSLOW https://libraries.hounslow.gov.uk/client/en_GB/hounslow/sear... . This one in particular seems too implausible - inspiration for Poirot and Downton Abbey? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23309690-down-to-the-abbey https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23309690-down-to-the-abb... I haven't actually read any of the ebooks mind.

B1FF_PSUVM 3y ago
> seems too implausible Good catch. Also, Christie has been written about for decades and no one ever mentioned this alleged 'forerunner' which is just about a clone ... Thanks for looking.