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Donald Serrell Thomas (born 1926) is an English author of (primarily) Victorian-era historical, crime and detective fiction, as well as books on factual crime and criminals, in particular several academic books on the history of crime in London. He has written a number of biographies, two volumes of poetry, and has also edited volumes of poetry by John Dryden and the Pre-Raphaelites.
Donald Thomas was born in Somerset, and educated at Queen's College, Taunton and Balliol College, Oxford. He currently holds a personal chair as Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Cardiff University.
Thomas's earliest works seem to have been in the area of legal and historical fact, notably revised texts of Thomas Bayly Howell's collection of state trials, originally collected at the behest of William Cobbett and published between 1809 and 1826. Among his earliest forays into the world of fiction was Sergeant Verity and the Cracksman, 1974, published under the pseudonym Francis Selwyn. By the early 1980s, however, he had largely shed the Selwyn pseudonym (returning to it briefly in the late 1980s for some non-fiction works, and once in 2000, for another "Verity" novel), and began writing under his own name, Donald (S.) Thomas, switching from academic study and biography to Sherlockiana and crime fiction, all underpinned with his deep knowledge of the times and cultures of which he writes.
He has written a number of books, mostly novels, on a variety of subjects predominantly set in Victorian England. He has also written a small number of non-fiction works dealing with similar subjects/settings, among them a study of the Victorian underworld, and biographies of Robert Browning, the Marquis de Sade, Henry Fielding, and Lewis Carroll.
His 1978 (rev. ed. 2001) biography of Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald highlights the characteristics of that individual which served in large part as inspiration both for C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower, and for Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey. In 1994, his Hanged in Error? provided an overview/investigation as to the likely guilt of seven individuals all hanged in the UK before its abolition as a means of capital punishment in 1965. The book dealt with the cases of Timothy Evans, John Williams (alias George MacKay, hanged in 1913 for the fatal shooting of Inspector Arthur Walls in Eastbourne during a burglary attempt), Edith Thompson, Robert Hoolhouse, Neville Heath, Charles Jenkins (hanged in 1947 together with Christopher Geraghty for fatally shooting Alec de Antiquis following a botched London jewel robbery), and James Hanratty. (N.B. This is not the same as the similarly titled 1961 book Hanged in Error by Leslie Hale, which contains a different set of case histories.)
In academic circles, he is especially well known for his studies of the criminal underworld of London from Victorian times, through World War II to the Kray twins. He has written seven biographies and a handful of other biographical studies, as well as fictionalised biographies of individuals such as Bonnie Prince Charlie. His biography of Lewis Carroll is recommended by Representative Poetry Online, and his other biographical works can be found on many academic reading lists.
He has edited volumes of Everyman's Library on poets ranging from John Dryden to the Post-Romantics, and also offered a translation of Michel Millot and Jean L'Ange's bawdy 17th century novel L'École des filles, which is described as "both an uninhibited manual of sexual technique and an erotic masterpiece of the first order" on its back cover.
Having retired from Cardiff University, he remains affiliated there, as an Associate Research Professor in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy. In 2005, as Personal Chair in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University, he "donated a selection of his personal archive of research papers, used in writing his series of acclaimed books on the Underworld in Victorian and World War II eras to the University [of Cardiff]'s Special Collections and Archives."
His most recent works include a study on censorship in modern Britain, reviewed as "provocative, timely and disturbing" by Iain Finlayson in The Times.
As a poet, Thomas won the Eric Gregory Award in 1962 for his collection Points of Contact. His biography of Robert Browning A Life Within Life was a runner-up for the Whitbread Prize, and his Victorian Underworld was shortlisted for the Gold Dagger Award.
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Lost Sherlock series
Donald Thomas - The Secret Cases Of Sherlock Holmes (read by John Telfer)
Donald Thomas - Sherlock Holmes And The Running Noose (read by John Telfer)
Donald Thomas - The Execution Of Sherlock Holmes (read by John Telfer)
Donald Thomas - Sherlock Holmes And The King's Evil: And Other New Tales Featuring The World's Greatest Detectiv (read by John Telfer)
Donald Thomas - Sherlock Holmes And The Ghosts Of Bly: And Other New Tales Featuring The World's Greatest Detectiv (read by John Telfer)
Donald Thomas - Death On A Pale Horse: Sherlock Holmes On Her Majesty's Secret Service (read by John Telfer)
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Lost Sherlock series
http://rapidgator.net/file/cd37fa9dd5a9dd7f4f6b636ea90ec8d1/The_Secret_Cases_Of_Sherlock_Holmes.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d6eb24b43411c4527a7412597d9a54b1/Sherlock_Holmes_And_The_Running_Noose.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e2fc52b25abd1c55b3f442ee547b2dfc/The_Execution_Of_Sherlock_Holmes.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/39d288869a84d0c7feae6cac5f051fe1/Sherlock_Holmes_And_The_Kings_Evil.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7e36f86a23dbd631034047d95e446556/Sherlock_Holmes_And_The_Ghosts_Of_Bly.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3590c4603c6cd1c2ce7511de90760237/Death_On_A_Pale_Horse.rar.html |
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