----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlie Williams" <
cs_will@hotmail.com>
> John Williams wrote:
> <<P.B. Yuill - the Hazell books - probably the
best crime novels written
by
> a
> former professional sportsman>>
>
> Am I right in thinking Yuill is a pseudonym of Terry
Venables (former
> England manager and player, for the English football
non-cognoscenti)? I
> thought he just wrote the TV series. Didn't notice
any novels. And are
these
> novels really any good?
Written when he was manager of Crystal Palace. P B Yuill is
the pseudonym of Venables and Gordon M Williams, the Scotsman
who wrote THE SIEGE OF TRENCHER'S FARM (filmed as Straw
Dogs). It begins to make sense. I'll certainly be having a
closer look.
Al
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