Brighton Belle (La Bern novel)

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Brighton Belle
AuthorArthur La Bern
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime
PublisherWilliam Allen
Publication date
1963
Media typePrint

Brighton Belle is a 1963 crime novel by the British writer Arthur La Bern.[1] The author had made his name with his 1945 debut It Always Rains on Sunday and had followed it up with several other bestsellers. Brighton Belle portrays the same low-life milieu as the earlier works, but with the setting shifted from London in the 1940s to the south coast resort of Brighton in the early 1960s.

It was in a tradition of other earlier novels using Brighton as a seedy setting including Graham Greene's Brighton Rock and Patrick Hamilton's The West Pier.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Reilly p.920

Bibliography[edit]

  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
  • The London Mystery Selection, Issues 56-59. N. Kark Publications., 1963.