Denzil Batchelor Denzil Batchelor i(A43206 works by) (a.k.a. Denzil Stanley Batchelor)
Also writes as: John Maytime
Born: Established: 22 Feb 1906 Mumbai,
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India,
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South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia, ; Died: Ceased: 6 Sep 1969
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Babbled of Green Fields Denzil Batchelor , London : Hutchinson , 1961 Z798348 1961 single work autobiography
1 y separately published work icon Everything Happens to Hector Denzil Batchelor , London : Heinemann , 1958 Z797699 1958 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon The Book of Cricket Denzil Batchelor , London : Collins , 1952 Z798345 1952 single work
1 2 y separately published work icon The Test Match Murder Denzil Batchelor , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1936 Z797692 1936 single work novel crime

'Mr. Batchelor's book opens dramatically with three English batsmen out for eight runs in a Test match. Then comes the sudden collapse and death of England's star batsman as he walks to the wicket. The high standard of the first chapter Is retained throughout the book, and leads from a vaudeville show to a Chinese opium den, from police headquarters to the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and to a thrilling and extraordinary ending.'

Source: 'Clever Mystery Story', Telegraph, 23 January 1937, p.18.
1 form y separately published work icon The Burgomeister Flames of Conscience; Hypnotised Denzil Batchelor , ( dir. Harry Southwell ) Australia : Film Players Corp , 1935 Z1870301 1935 single work film/TV horror

Like the 1911 film The Bells, The Burgomeister is an adaptation of the nineteenth-century stage melodrama by French writers Erckmann-Chatrian. An inn-keeper murders a Jewish guest for his money but, years later, his guilt forces him into hallucinations of his victim's sleighbells and a dream state in which he is tried for and convicted of the crime.

Like The Bells, The Burgomeister is a 'lost film': in the case of the latter film, the National Film and Sound Archive knows of a single extant sequence.
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