![]() ![]() Only regular film and book reviews with The Spectator were keeping him afloat. Although an earlier novel Stamboul Train (1932) had been a success, others (there were seven up to that point) had sold less well, and each new book added to a debt that was accruing to his publisher. ![]() He was in his early thirties, and worked as a freelance writer to support his wife and two small children. He always researched his fictional worlds carefully. This bleak aspect appealed to Graham Greene, who made a number of trips here in 1936 to capture the atmosphere of Brighton and take notes for a book he had in mind. But in the 1930s, beyond the glitzy tourist façade of the Palace Pier with its Royal Pavilion and amusements, lay tracts of shonky housing, dreary shopping precincts, industrial areas, and a racecourse that crawled with small time crooks. ![]() Brighton was and still is a popular seaside resort in East Sussex on the south coast of England. ![]()
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