Rough Edges

“The Green Jester”, a Sexton Blake novella by Donald Stuart, appeared originally in UNION JACK #1379, March 22, 1930, and was reprinted in t...

Continuing to read my way through the anthology SEXTON BLAKE WINS, the next story is the novella “The Man I Killed” by Rex Hardinge. That’s ...

“Under Sexton Blake’s Orders” is a novelette by prolific British author John Hunter that first appeared in the 1942 edition of SEXTON BLAKE ...

The novella “The Treasure of Tortoise Island” by G.H. Teed first appeared in the January 17, 1925 issue of UNION JACK and was reprinted in t...

It had been a while since I read a Sexton Blake yarn. I realized that while I’d read stories from early in Blake’s history and also late ent...

In 1962, Michael Moorcock was an assistant editor on the Sexton Blake series, then published in digest-sized paperbacks. He also wrote one o...

This is another Sexton Blake paperback from 1965. That’s my cover-creased copy in the scan. It answers a question I had, but I’ll get to tha...

MURDERER AT LARGE is a 1965 entry in the Sexton Blake series after it moved  from digest-sized novels to mass-market paperbacks. That title ...

This is the first Sexton Blake novel I’ve been privileged to read in its original form, a slim, digest-sized paperback published in January ...

The only Sexton Blake stories I’ve read have been from the early 20 th Century when he’s a Sherlock Holmes-like “consulting detective”. But...

I’ve been aware of the character Sexton Blake for many, many years, having first seen the name on paperbacks during the Sixties, none of whi...