Blondie Iscariot

Blondie Iscariot is a 1948 crime novel by the British author Edgar Lustgarten, later known as the host of the television shows Scotland Yard.^[1] ^[2] It revolves around an attractive but treacherous London Gangster's Moll, who betrays several racketeers in post-Second World War London. It was critically the least well-received of his novels^[3] It has been described as "a sordid and shoddy melodrama lacking the sensitivity and promise of his earlier tale" A Case to Answer.^[4]

References

Jorgensen, John & Jones, Daniel. Contemporary Authors New Revision. Cengage Gale, 1997.
Mann, David. Britain's First TV/film Crime Series and the Industrialisation of Its Film Industry, 1946-1964. Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.
Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
White, Terry. Justice Denoted: The Legal Thriller in American, British, and Continental Courtroom Literature. Praeger, 2003.

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