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The Gold of Empire
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19970216
Author:Nina King
THE BUCHAN PAPERS
By J.D.F. Jones
St. Martin's. 249 pp. $21.95 THE BUCHAN PAPERS is the latest variation on a genre in which great fictional characters -- or their creators -- are resurrected to fight or detect or spy another day. Sherlock Holmes and Nero Wolfe and Dorothy Gale are among the characters who have repeatedly been given new leases on fictional life, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker among the writers. In The Buchan Papers novelist John Buchan becomes a character in adventures similar to those he invented for his most famous hero, Richard Hannay. But since Hannay's ...
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