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ERIC PARKER’S ONE-AND-ONLY SEXTON BLAKE COMIC STRIP: The Secret Of Monte Cristo, 1949
guy.lawley@btinternet.com Sexton Blake was a front runner in the ‘Rivals of Sherlock Holmes’ stakes, first appearing in 1893, just six years after the Great Detective himself. Blake is sometimes referred to as as ‘the office-boy’s Sherlock Holmes’, perhaps in part … Continue reading
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