On hot evenings they had been using a typewriter on the roof - they were thought to be transmitting Morse messages.Ĭhapman was to contribute poems and decorations to Blakeston's 1947 anthology Appointment with Seven and illustrations to another, How to Make Your Own Confetti (1965). While writing the latter in Venice, the authors were arrested as Russian spies. Blakeston and Chapman co-wrote stories, among them Jim's Gun (1939) and Danger in Provence (1946). Chapman also contributed a drawing for the 1976 Blakeston fiction Pass the Poison Separately. His 1947 collection Priests, Peters and Pussens had idiosyncratic illustrations by Chapman, The Sunday Times commenting that these were "as unusual as the stories they decorate". As a writer of stories, John Betjeman reckoned that Blakeston was a neglected genius of the macabre.
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