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READING RAFAEL SABATINI continues with table 2

table 2

DATE	LIFE	WORK
1915, April	Rafael is 40	The Act of Faith [to become Hounds of God]
2 October		Duroc
		The Roundhead's Bargain
November		The Quittance
December		The Poachers
?		?The Fugitive?
?		?Fructidor? [possibly became The Reaping]
?		The Sea-Hawk
?		The Banner of the Bull
	Rafael may have translated The History of the Harlequinade by Maurice Sand pub. by Secker; JFK thought so.
1916, February		The Mask [to become The Stalking Horse]
March		The Scourge [to become Fortune's Fool]
May	Rafael is 41	The Camisade
1917, June	Rafael is 42	The Night of Escape
December		Historical Nights' Entertainment, 1st series
?		The Snare
?	edits The Book of Sea Trout by Hamish Stuart
1918, January		The Arcanum
		Intelligence
March		The Augmentation of Mercury
April	Rafael is 43	The Priest of Mars
May		The Oracle
June		Under the Leads
July		The Rooks and the Hawk
August		The Polish Duel
1919, June	Rafael is 44	The Night of Doom [to become The Minion]
5 December		The Sentimentalist
		The Scapulary
?		Historical Nights' Entertainment, 2nd series
1920, 15 November	Rafael is 45	While the Clock Ticked
December		The Usurer's Daughter
		The Marriage of Beaumartin
1921, 15 July	Rafael is 46	Casanova in Madrid
1 August		Blood Money
10 October		Hostage
20 October		Captain Blood's Dilemma
?		The Lord of Time
?		Scaramouche
	collaborates with J E Harold Terry on play, produced in New York	The Rattlesnake
	writes the screenplay	Bluff
1922	Rafael is 47	Captain Blood
	writes the screenplay	The Scourge
	writes the screenplay	The Recoil
1923, July	Rafael is 48	The Girl He Got at the Pawnshop
August?		Fortune's Fool [serialised in US, Dec.'22 & Feb.'23
	The Rattlesnake is produced in London, & he writes, for production in New York, the play	Scaramouche
1924, October	Rafael is 49	The Luck of Capoulade
November?		The Carolinian [serialised in US, June - December]
	collaborates with Leon M Lion [yes, that's his name!] on play produced in London	In the Snare
	revises	Torquemada
	and	Cesare Borgia
	?writes article?	The Revenge of the Queen
1925, February		In the Shadow of the Guillotine [ pt 1 of The Reaping]
9 May	Rafael is 50; he writes an article	Are You An Ancestor?
	and a play, produced in Birmingham & London	The Tyrant
	revises	The Strolling Saint
	collaborates with J E Harold Terry on a play, produced in Detroit & New York	The Carolinian
1926, August?	Rafael is 51	Bellarion [serialised in US, 7 pts, Feb. – Aug.]
1927, January		The Nuptials of Corbigny [to become Nuptials of Corbal]
1 April	Rafael-Angelo dies in a car crash; Rafael senior suffers "nervous exhaustion". He turns 52 & misses the opening of Glasgow production of Scaramouche, (also produced in London)
October		The Nuptials of Corbal
November		The Catchpoll
?	writes an Introduction for The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
1928, October?	Rafael is 53	The Hounds of God
1929, April?	Rafael is 54	The Romantic Prince [ serialised in US, Apr. – June]
June		Dagger and Sword
July		Rendezvous
?		The Reaping
1930, February		Ransom
March		The Blank Shot
April	Rafael is 55	The Treasure Ship
May		The King's Messenger
		[May to August, 4 pt serial, The Stalking Horse]
June		The Love Story of Jeremy Pitt
July		The War Indemnity
August		Gallows Key
September		The Expiation of Mme. de Coulevain
October		The Gratitude of M. de Coulevain
		The Minion [in US The King's Minion, serialised in 7 pts, Apr. – Oct.]
November	The Tyrant is produced in New York

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