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Robert Hanks: Dennis Wheatley, 20 January 2011
The Devil Is a Gentleman: The Life and Times of Dennis Wheatley
by Phil Baker.
Dedalus, 699 pp., £25, October 2009,978 1 903517 75 8 Show More
by Phil Baker.
Dedalus, 699 pp., £25, October 2009,
“... decades into his career, he had 55 books in print, which collectively accounted for one seventh of Hutchinson’s turnover; Arrow, Hutchinson’s paperback imprint, was selling 1,150,000 Wheatleys a year, a quarter of their total output; in 1966, the paperback of The Satanist sold more than 100,000 copies in ten ... ”