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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
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