ARCHER IN CHINA. TYPED MANUSCRIPT.. This item is unavailable.ARCHER IN CHINA. TYPED MANUSCRIPT.

50 typed pages, the top copy; unsigned but with with a few ink corrections in his small neat hand. A longish short story, possibly from his 1937 collection 'Archer Plus Twenty'. A thriller with China and Hong Kong setting featuring Maxwell Archer, a daring aviationist. Clevely, who wrote also under the pseudonym of Tod Claymore, was born in Bristol in 1898. He was educated by his uncle, a vicar, and spent his early life in the vicarage. He obtained a pilot's license before WW2, was active in the RAF and finished the war as wing-commander. He died in 1964. Clevely was one of the dozens of authors who wrote for the story paper The Thriller in the 1930s, a paper that made famous The Saint by Charteris, Leslie, The Toff and The Baron by Creasey, John and the Norman Conquest novels of Gray, Berkeley. Clevely wrote more than 30 titles for this influential paper and in addition several novels with serial characters, among them John Martinson Òthe Gang-Smasher" and Inspector Williams of Scotland Yard. As Tod Claymore, he wrote another nine mysteries, all with a series character named Tod Claymore. After the war Clevely contributed about a dozen titles to the hugely popular Sexton Blake series. No date, c.late 1930s. Typed pages gathered with string at spine and titled on front with stamp of his literary agent 'J. Farquhrason' of Halsey House, Red Lion Square. Faint soiling but in decent vg condition.…