Les aventures de Bill Disley
Among the 90 issues of “Murmure d’Amour” (1945-1947) there were sub-series. The most important was “Une Aventure de Bill Disley” (not ever indicated on the covers) with, at least, 25 issues. Created and written by J.A. Flanigham, the series featured newspaperman-detective Bill Disley of the “Star Express”, a big daily newspaper in London. Disley’s usual companion is Jeff, a giant, former notorious pickpocket, entirely devoted to him. There’s also Inspector Martin from Scotland Yard.
The stories published in this collection “Murmure d’amour” will be reissued many times at other publishing houses where “Bill Disley” will have his own series. Flanigham continuously adding original stories or rewriting old ones by extending them. Flanigham also took Bill Disley stories and rewrote them to create crime novels without Bill Disley.
Flanigham’s works appeared here at Editions du Moulin-Vert. Further on Flanigham was published at Editions de Lutèce and, finally, at Editions Ferenczi.
J.A. Flanigham, no doubt, was a collective pen-name. The way in which the work presents itself is very reminiscent of the precepts of teamwork as advocated by Jean-Michel Sorel. This is my favorite hypothesis as to the identity of Flanigham: Jean-Michel Sorel could have been the mastermind behind the collective Flanigham...No proof of it, just an intuition.
cover art: Rog
publisher: Editionsdu Moulin Vert, Paris
source:amsaklapper’s collection
