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Original Titles

Just as DW diligently drafted and then re-drafted his novels to give the most dramatic effect, so he also sometimes changed the titles. These are the title changes that we know about:

Title Date first published Title(s) in Draft
Three Inquisitive People 1939/40* The Crime in Curzon Street
Who Killed Lady Shoesmith?
Such Power is Dangerous 1933 The Film War
The Devil Rides Out 1934 The Talisman of Evil
Murder Off Miami 1936 He Craved Adventure
Uncharted Seas 1938** Blue Murder
The Quest of Julian Day 1939 The Accursed Quest
Gunmen, Gallants and Ghosts 1943 The Mixture as Before
Tip up the Bottle
A Good Time Was Had By Nearly All
The Second Seal 1950 Swansong in Vienna
The Dark Secret Of Josephine 1955 The Secret Marriage
They Used Dark Forces 1964 The Devil's Disciple
Evil In A Mask 1969 Enter the Nymphomaniac
The Young Man Said 1977 The Naughty Boy
Later volume of autobiography ? The Sky's the Limit
The Deception Planners 1980 Secrets of the War Cabinet


*Written before The Forbidden Territory, but first published in an Omnibus in 1939, and first published as a stand-alone novel in 1940.


** Serialised as Blue Murder in the Daily Mail in 1937, but published in book form as Uncharted Seas in 1938.





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