Spy Author Jeremy Duns and Spywrite's Jeff Quest talk through some of the in’s and out’s of research, and especially spy research, in the hopes of encouraging others to do research too. We talk about the a lost Pinkerton manuscript, the time Jeremy nearly got kicked out of an interview before it even started, how Jeff got the title of an author’s book wrong within 30 seconds of starting an interview and why you should turn every page. All that and more in this episode of Spybrary.
Hannah Cooper’s site looking at old TV – http://visualmutterings.com/
Bill Koenig’s Spy Command Bond Timeline – https://spycommandfeatures.wordpress.com/
Newspapers.com – https://www.newspapers.com/
Internet Archive – https://archive.org/
Robert Caro on how he got his start – https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/28/the-secrets-of-lyndon-johnsons-archives
Story on Irma Dupree, chronicler of Allan Pinkerton – https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-07-07-9103170388-story.html
The ebay lot Jeremy got wasn’t from the spy codenamed Blunderhead, but here’s the real story of Ronald Seth, Agent Blunderhead, who wrote about Russian spies – https://www.amazon.com/Executioners-Story-SMERSH-Ronald-Seth/dp/B00005VUCW
But had also been a a double agent for the Nazis! – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/16161262.2013.848532
Jeremy’s website – http://www.jeremy-duns.com/
Jeremy on Twitter – https://twitter.com/JeremyDuns
Download Jeremy’s free book Need to Know – http://www.jeremy-duns.com/needtoknow
Purchase Jeremy’s book Dead Drop/Codename: Hero – http://www.jeremy-duns.com/deaddrop
Jeff’s Website – https://spywrite.com/
Jeff on Twitter – https://twitter.com/spywrite
Jeff’s article on le Carré meeting Rex Stout – https://spywrite.com/2020/10/19/john-le-carre-meets-rex-stout/
Jeff’s article on alternate le Carré titles – https://spywrite.com/2020/02/19/taking-one-all-the-way-through-or-how-i-learned-to-love-le-carres-bad-alternative-titles-to-his-novels/
Jeff’s article on Ambler’s party with a who’s who of spy novelists – https://spywrite.com/2017/06/28/spy-writers-club/
