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unusual facts about Strand Magazine



Macdonald Hastings

He was editor of the Strand Magazine between 1946 and 1950, after which he was recruited by Rev Marcus Morris to write for a new boys' comic, The Eagle.

Michael ffolkes

Ffolkes contributed to such newspapers and magazines as Strand, Lilliput, the Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, the Sunday Telegraph, Playboy, Private Eye, the New Yorker, the Reader's Digest, Krokodil, and Esquire.

Sparkling Cyanide

The book features the recurring character of Colonel Race for the last time and was an expansion of a Hercule Poirot short story entitled "Yellow Iris," which had previously been published in issue 559 of the Strand Magazine in July 1937 and in book form in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories in the US in 1939.

The Pall Mall Magazine

It was often compared to the competing publication, Strand Magazine, and many artists, such as illustrator Sidney Paget and author H. G. Wells, sold freelance work to both.


see also

Arthur Twidle

On the death of Sidney Paget, who had illustrated Conan Dolyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand magazine, Twidle became one of Doyle's regular artists.

Greenhough

Herbert Greenhough Smith (1855–1935), the first editor of The Strand magazine

Haberdasher

George Newnes – founder of the Tit-Bits newspaper (1881) and the popular The Strand Magazine, of Sherlock Holmes fame