Welcome to Stranded!, my Strand Magazine-based April A to Z Blogging Challenge! In this challenge, I will be taking illustrations from The Strand Magazine and making new stories out of them. Today, I have a four-panel one-shot for you (well, there are five panels, but to see the fifth, you have to go to my home-page and look at the post excerpt– it is a sort of frontispiece), all taken from the same story, in The Strand Magazine, No. 6. I tried to use as many illustrations from the story as possible, but in the end I didn’t use them all. Anyway, here it is!
And that’s all for today, folks! Thanks for visiting; stay as long as you like! There is a LOT of content on this blaugh, and (in my totally-not-humble opinion) most of it is Very Good. May I particularly recommend my older A To Zs? If you click on the header, it will whisk you away to my homepage, and there, you ought to find links to my Thrilling A To Zs of Aprils Past. One of them (Alas! My 2015 A To Z) is a Complete Edwardian Mystery Novella, with costumes! As in, every day that April, I dressed up as a different character in my story, and included a picture of myself in the Daily Disguise with each post. I donned False Whiskers and much Theatrical Make-Up to achieve these effects, and I have been told that some of them are really very good.
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Until tomorrow, then!
LOL!!!! That was fantastic!
I don’t think Kingsley ate the other man. I think he was quite brave to face the interrogation.
Great story 🙂
@JazzFeathers
The Old Shelter – 1940s Film Noir
🙂 I think you are right about Kingsley.
I don’t think he ate the other man, but he does look a lot like Count Dracula in the last picture.
Finding Eliza
Hello Kristin! I agree that Kingsley is Guiltless of Jenkins’ blood; also, I noticed that he looked a bit Dracula-ish, too.
A Flipbook of Infamy…brilliant!
I can just imagine gendarmes and bobbies of days past, flipping through the pages to reconstruct the scene of the crime.
Ha! Yes! I am now vividly picturing this, too. I think in my picture, the flipbook technique is one of the Fancy Tricks of Scotland Yard. I am seeing a local constable watching with incredulous disgust as the Scotland Yard Inspector constructs and uses his flipbook.
I absolutely love these one-shots. They remind me when I was a kid, and we’d turn down the TV and narrate new lines for cheesy movies. Great fun.
Thanks! And I see what you mean, especially in this one. 🙂