KING OF THE WORLD (THE POMMERAY CASE) by Guy Morton - First Edition-British-1927

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KING OF THE WORLD or The Pommeray Case by Guy Morton First Edition - British Hodder and Stoughton, 1927 London, Great Britain A Great Opportunity To Own This RARE and Unique Book Guy Morton was a mystery-fantasy author born in York Township, Ontario in 1884. He taught school for three years and worked for many years as a reporter for the Toronto Daily Star and the Globe & Mail. He died in 1948. Guy Eugene Morton's coastal mystery, The Black Robe (1927), was published in England as King of the World, or The Pommeray Case. According to UBC researcher Margaret Waddington, it was the subject for the second 'talkie' ever financed and filmed outside of Hollywood. The story was set in Vancouver and the movie production was filmed near Victoria at Willow Park. Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, the 54-minute, black & white mystery about devil worship and a Chinese-related crime wave appeared in 1934 as Secrets of Chinatown, produced by Kenneth J. Bishop. A beautiful white girl named Zenobia works at ChanTow Ling's curiosity shop and officiates at cult ceremonies for the evil Order of the Black Robe. According to film critic Peter Morris, the film was technically crude, it offended Chinese British Columbians and it was a box-office disaster. Morris has summarized the plot: "After two men - Brandham (James Flavin) and Dovercourt (John Barnard)- disappear in Victoria's Chinatown, a baffled police commissioner (James McGrath) brings in private detective Donegal Dawn (Raymond Lawrence) to assi

• Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
• Year: 1927
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair

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