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Post by: Admin on February 28, 2023, 11:22:28 pm
Cecil William Mercer, who wrote under the pseudonym "Dornford Yates", was born in Walmer in 1885 and educated at Harrow.

His novel "Blind Corner" appeared in 1927. There are nine chapters:

1)   The Well-Digger's Statement
2)   The Way to Wagensburg
3)   The Battle with the Springs
4)   The Attack on the Well
5)   We go to Ground
6)   Tester gives Tongue
7)   ‘Rose’ Noble Moves
8)   The Race for the Chamber
9)   Out of the Eater

Here is a list of his productions, with the dates I can find:

Berry and Co. - 1920 short stories

Jonah and Co. - 1922

Adèle and Co. - 1931

And Berry came too - 1936

Anthony Lyveden - 1921

Valerie French - 1923

The Brother of Daphne - short stories

The Courts of Idleness

And Five were Foolish - 1924 short stories

As Other Men are - 1923 short stories

The Stolen March - 1926

Maiden Stakes - 1928

Blind Corner - 1927

Perishable Goods - 1928

Blood Royal - 1929

Fire Below - 1930

Red in the Morning - 1947

Safe Custody - 1932

Storm Music - 1934

She Fell Among Thieves - 1935

She Painted her Face - 1937

This Publican - 1938

Gale Warning - 1939

Shoal Water - 1940

Period Stuff - 1942 short stories

An Eye for a Tooth - 1943

Cost Price - 1949

B-Berry and I Look Back - 1958 semi-autobiographical

The Berry Scene - 1947

The House that Berry Built - 1945

Lower than Vermin - 1950

Ne'er Do Well - 1952 detective novel

Wife Apparent - 1956