Red in the Morning

Red in the Morning is a 1946 adventure novel by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), the seventh in his 'Chandos' thriller series. The events of the story immediately follow those of his 1939 novel Gale Warning in which Chandos and Mansel appear as characters.
The book was published in the US under the title Were Death Denied.[2]

Red in the Morning
1946 dustjacket
AuthorDornford Yates
SeriesChandos books
GenreNovel
PublisherWard Lock & Co[1]
Publication date
1946[1]
Media typePrint
Pages255[1]
Preceded byAn Eye for a Tooth 
Followed byCost Price 

Plot

The novel is largely set in the countryside around Pau, in Southern France. Chandos and Mansel interfere with a gang robbery at Biarritz, and are hunted down with murderous intent by the gang's leader.

Background

Red in the Morning was written rapidly by Mercer, who needed at this stage in his life to ensure he remained in the ranks of best-selling authors. Much of his private fortune was tied up in his house "Cockade", south of Pau (the building of which was described in his novel of the year before, The House That Berry Built) and it was becoming increasingly likely that he and his wife would be unable to live there after the war.[3]

Critical reception
US edition

Although the war meant that the book could not be printed in the same quantities as previous books, it was still highly successful for the time. It shows no signs of having been written rapidly, and many followers of Mercer consider it to be one of his best.[4]

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References
  1. "British Library Item details". primocat.bl.uk. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  2. Macdonald, Kate (2015). Novelists Against Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 226. ISBN 978-1137457714.
  3. Smithers 1982, p. 201.
  4. Smithers 1982, p. 202.

Bibliography
  • Smithers, AJ (1982). Dornford Yates. London: Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 0 340 27547 2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Usborne, Richard (1974). Clubland Heroes. London: Barrie & Jenkins. ISBN 0 214 20012 4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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