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Articles on Victor Canning

Anonymous. "This month's author". Popular Post, May 1959.

Anonymous. "One man's pipeline". The Observer, 6 November 1966.

Anonymous. "Canning's forty". Sunday Telegraph, 7 July 1974.

Anonymous. "The real Victor Canning would like to meet his ghost". Sunday Independent, 1 September 1974.

Anonymous. “Victor gives up for women’s trend: love!”. Sunday Express, 1974. (Clipping fronm the Random House archive, exact date obscured.)

Anonymous. "Victor Canning obituary". Daily Telegraph, 26 February 1986.

Anonymous. "Victor Canning obituary". The Times, 27 February 1986.

Flett, Al. "Writer looks into bank deposits". Evening News, 8 August 1974.

Foster, Jack. "He robs banks—for ideas". Birmingham Evening Mail, 29 August 1974.

Heelas, Roy. "Landmark that waits for a thriller". Unsourced cutting in Random House Archive, 1973.

Higgins, John. "Victor Canning in Calstock", from the Calstock Historical Association Newsletter, 2006.

Higgins, John. "The Birdcage books of Victor Canning". Crime and Detective Stories, No. 50, October 2006.

Higgins, John. "Victor Canning", entry in The Literary Encyclopedia, November 2007.

Higgins, John. "John Buchan and Victor Canning". Forthcoming in the newsletter of the John Buchan Society, spring/summer 2009.

Linnett, Peter. "Interview with Victor Canning". Writer's Review, October 1974.

Lord, Graham. "The crazy gamble that made Victor famous". Sunday Express, 10 August 1978.

Malone, Roger. "A long way from working in local government." Western Morning News, 6 February 1976.

Thomas, David A. "Victor Canning: popular and now very collectable author of thrillers, comic novels, and mysteries." Book and Magazine Collector No. 32, November 1986.

Wintle, Frank. "Top of the thriller tree". Western Morning News, 30 August 1974.


Information compiled by John Higgins, last updated 23 February 2009.