Gimlet
The giant success 'Worrals' meant for the WAAF, led the War Office to
request Johns to create an army hero. That became the unpolished commando
Captain Lorrington King, DSO, nicknamed Gimlet, with little sense of
humour, ruthless and hard: totally different from the officer and gentleman
Biggles. He commands three other commandos: corporal and former London
policeman Albert Edward "Copper" Collson (in books 3 - 9 Colson!), the young
Nigel Norman "Cub" Peters and the French-Canadian private "Trapper" Troublay.
Of the ten Gimlet books four were translated into Dutch. There is one short
story. The first two titles are set in WWII, the others after the war.
1. Gimlet - King of the commandos - October 1943
2. Gimlet goes again - February 1944
3. Gimlet comes home - December 1946
4. Gimlet mops up - August 1947
5. Gimlet's Oriental quest - 1948
6. Gimlet lends a hand - October 1949
7. Gimlet bores in - September 1950
8. Gimlet off the map - 1951
9. Gimlet gets the answer - September 1952
10. Gimlet takes a job - June 1954
As short story was published:
An Oriental Adventure (Comrades in Arms, 1947, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.,
London).
Biggles and Algy feature very shortly in this book too!
Dutch Gimlet titles by "De Ster", Antwerp.
Undated, in the early fifties, in hard cover and paperback, both with
dustjackets:
1. King in Siam
2. Gimlet helpt een handje
3. King drijft door
4. King in de rimboe
Details on these titles can be found in the Captain W.E. Johns
Catalogus.
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