#leo bates

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The Honourable Algernon Knox, Detective. E. Phillips Oppenheim. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1920]. First English edition. Original dust jacket by Leo Bates.

"The Honourable Algernon Knox motored from Piccadilly right into a mystery. When he came to, he found himself in a room with Vera Custeneiff. danseuse, Russian spy perhaps, alluring even to brilliant men with secrets—like his uncle, cabinet minister. Later he had to play highway robber for his uncle's sake."

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philsp

October 1931 issue

stories included:

Max Pemberton, “Lady of Wolves", illustrated by Leo Bates

Seattle Mystery Bookshop

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Highly Inflammable. Max Saltmarsh. London: Michael Joseph, (1936). First edition. Original dust jacket by Leo Bates.

International intrigue -- a deep-laid plot to foil the disrupting oil markets and stabilize the home market. The chief actors become deeply involved in counter-plots dealing with the drug traffic. Good melodrama. -- Kirkus Review

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Leo Bates

[cathyjacobowitz]

He had just painted.

Mrs. Bates said she did not believe that her husband regretted his decision to work in obscurity. His goal had been not to pander to passing tastes, or to scatter his work to the four winds. He had just painted.

Mr. Bates was looking for some way to exhibit his work at the end of his life, she said. But as he approached death, he took solace in the thought that if his work were ever discovered, his oeuvre would be nearly complete.

Asked if she had grown frustrated by his obstinacy, Mrs. Bates paused, then said, “You know, in time I came to understand.”

She added, “He was hardheaded and I think you had to be that way, not to get your head turned around.”

“A Brooklyn Storefront Hid an Artist’s Decades of Work,” New York Times