The title FANTOMAS OF LONDON, as this book’s compiler David White admits in a brief forward, was inspired by another non-Fantomas affiliated Allain novel entitled FANTOMAS OF BERLIN-and also because “quite frankly Fantomas needs the publicity.”ĭavid White, a Fantomas enthusiast responsible for republishing the first seven Fantomas novels through (White’s omnibus volume THE COLLECTED FANTOMAS is a must-own for Fantomas-philes) and authoring the excellent pastiche FANTOMAS IN AMERICA, put together FANTOMAS OF LONDON by simply photocopying the original magazine pages, resulting in text that’s not always entirely legible (and often runs off the page). Rather, it’s a standalone 1927 novel by Allain called A WOMAN OF PREY that appeared (in four-part serialized form) in Flynn’s Detective Weekly magazine. Contrary to what the title proclaims, this book is not part of the Fantomas series of novels by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre.
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