Hadfield, Robert L
Entry updated 31 March 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1888-1958) UK author, in active service during World War One, who wrote some popular adventure fiction, including a few Sexton Blake stories (see Sexton Blake Library), none collected. His two Scientific Romances with Frank E Farncombe, both of which come at the end of the brief era when speculations as to the powers of radio waves were moderately rife, are the Near Future Ruled by Radio (1925), the more engaging of the two, in which a "Z" Ray threatens radio-mediated world peace in 1930; and Red Radio (1927), in which similar conspiracies take even more convoluted twists. [JC]
Robert L'Estrange Hadfield
born Hampstead, London: 22 November 1888
died Bridge, Kent: 1958
works
- Ruled by Radio (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1925) with Frank E Farncombe [hb/]
- Red Radio (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1927) with Frank E Farncombe [hb/]
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