Gale Warning

1939 novel by Dornford Yates

This article is about the novel. For the weather advisory, see Gale warning.

Gale Warning

First edition

Author| Dornford Yates
Genre| Novel
Publisher| Ward Lock & Co[1]

Publication date

| 1939[1]
Media type| Print
Pages| 313[1]

Gale Warning is a 1939 novel by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer). It was first serialised in Woman's Home Companion (March 1939 to August 1939, illustrated by Floyd Davis). Although it includes Chandos and Mansel, as a first person narrative by another character it is not normally counted as one of the author's 'Chandos' books.

## Plot

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John Bagot narrates a tale featuring Jonathan Mansel as the head of a small private organisation dedicated to the suppression of serious crime by unorthodox means. A villain, Barabbas, takes revenge when Mansel kills a minor member of his gang, and Mansel and friends set out in pursuit to seek vengeance. The Chateau of Midian forms the final backdrop.

## Critical reception

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Mercer’s autobiographer AJ Smithers, writing in 1982, noted that this novel and the next, Shoal Water, are written to a pattern, though one that is cunningly woven.[2] He considered both books to be swiftly moving, just plausible, and to still bear re-reading after all these years.[3]

## References

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1. ^ a b c "British Library Item details". primocat.bl.uk. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
2. ^ Smithers 1982, p. 173.
3. ^ Smithers 1982, p. 175.

## Bibliography

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* Smithers, AJ (1982). Dornford Yates. London: Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-27547-2.

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Books by Dornford Yates

'Berry' books|

* The Brother of Daphne (1914)
* The Courts of Idleness (1920)
* Berry and Co. (1921)
* Jonah and Co. (1922)
* Adèle and Co. (1931)
* And Berry Came Too (1936)
* The House That Berry Built (1945)
* The Berry Scene (1947)
* As Berry and I Were Saying (1952)
* B-Berry and I Look Back (1958)

'Chandos' books|

* Blind Corner (1927)
* Perishable Goods (1928)
* Blood Royal (1929)
* Fire Below (1930)
* She Fell Among Thieves (1935)
* An Eye for a Tooth (1943)
* Red in the Morning (1946)
* Cost Price (1949)

Other volumes|

* Anthony Lyveden (1921)
* Valerie French (1923)
* And Five Were Foolish (1924)
* As Other Men Are (1925)
* The Stolen March (1926)
* Maiden Stakes (1928)
* Summer Fruit (1929, US)
* Safe Custody (1932)
* Storm Music (1934)
* She Painted Her Face (1937)
* This Publican (1938)
* Gale Warning (1939)
* Shoal Water (1940)
* Period Stuff (1942)
* Lower than Vermin (1950)
* Ne'er-Do-Well (1954)
* Wife Apparent (1956)

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