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by Martin Noble



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Private Schulz

New English Library, 1981



World War II black comedy based on the true story of an SS conman, and on scripts by Jack Pulman.


Story

Private Gerhardt Otto Schulz, inducted into the SS's dirty tricks department in spite of all his efforts to keep out of the firing line, conceives the idea of flooding the British economy with forged five pound notes. The plan is implemented and his commanding officer, Neuheim, based on Alfred Naujocks, the man who claimed to have started the Second World War, takes all the credit.

When Schulz is parachuted into enemy British territory to bury a canister of fivers, the mission goes disastrously wrong and on his return to Germany he is thrown into prison.

How he spends the rest of the war and the ensuing peacetime attempting to recover his counterfeit inheritance is the story of Private Schulz.

And all this actually happened . . .

The BBC TV series (starring Michael Elphick, Ian Richardson and Billie Whitelaw) was nominated for a BAFTA award.

The paperback was in the UK Sunday Times Top Ten Paperback List.

I received one fan letter from a Californian private eye who wrote:




 
PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR
DRC
PETER UNIVERSITY
CALIFORNIA USA


Dear Mr Noble

Please accept my heartiest congratulations on your novelisation of Jack Pulman's "Private Schulz".

It's the funniest book I've read since "The Good Soldier Schweik" and that's going back a good few years.

I haven't seen the BBC TV series, preferring to read your novelisation instead.

It takes a lot to make me laugh when reading a book but you've done it!

It really is excellent, and you write so well and descriptively. You are a credit to your metier.

I've done a lot of reading recently and have gotten through such books as [long list of books] but yours tops them all!

Cordially,

George A. Athans

 



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  Bullshot  

  Star, 1983  



Based on Alan Shearman, Ron House and Diz White's screenplay for Handmade Films, this is a comic parody of the Bulldog Drummond genre and British adventure fiction of the 1920s.

The film starred Shearman, House, White and Billy Connolly.



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Bloodbath at the House of Death

 Star, 1984  


Very loosely based on Ray Cameron and Barry Cryer's screenplay for Wildwood Productions, this comic horror novel parodies the Hammer genre.

The movie starred Kenny Everett, Pamela Stephenson and Vincent Price.



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  Automan  

  Target, 1984  

Science fantasy action adventure for 9-14 year olds based on the BBC TV series.

A sort of computerized version of Herbie the anthropomorphic Volkswagen, with Automan being able to transform himself into a supercharged jet-powered car.

Based on Glen A. Larson's teleplay for Twentieth-Century Fox and BBC TV.


 
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 Cover Up 

 Target, 1985 

Based on Glen A. Larson's teleplay for Twentieth-Century Fox and BBC TV, a thriller series for older teenagers set in the world of fashion/glamour photography.



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 Finder of Lost Loves 

 Target, 1985 

Romantic fiction, again for older teenagers, written under the pseudonym of Sara Richardson - a novel uniting a collection of stories about a female detective agent uniting missing persons, culminating in the heroine herself finding her own lost love.

Based on Aaron Spelling Productions' teleplay for Twentieth Century Fox.


                             
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 One Magic Christmas 

 Target, 1985 

Touching story for all ages about a poor family struggling to make ends meet at Christmas. In the tradition of It’s a Wonderful Life, a guardian angel reveals an alternative reality to a doubting mother and her children get to meet the real Santa Klaus.

Based on Thomas Meehan's screenplay for Walt Disney Productions, the film starred Mary Steenburgen and Harry Dean Stanton.

I received one fan letter from a woman in Canada who said it was the best book she’d ever read!


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 The Wuzzles (I and II) 

 Target, 1986 

Based on Disney cartoon series for younger readers (7-10) about animal hybrids combining the features of two or more different animals.


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 Ruthless People 

Star, 1987

Adult black comedy of a bungled kidnap, based on Dale Launer's screenplay for Touchstone Films, the film starred Danny De Vito, Bette Midler and Helen Slater.

The movie was a UK box-office No. 1.



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 Tin Men 

 Star, 1987 

Comedy about a feud between two double-glazing salesmen, based on Barry Levinson's screenplay for Touchstone Films starring Danny De Vito, Richard Dreyfuss and Barbara Hershey.


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 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 

Star, 1988

Based on Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman's screenplay for Touchstone Films and Steven Spielberg.

The movie - for children and adults - combining live film with animation and starring Bob Hoskins was a No. 1 US/UK smash hit comedy.


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 Richmond Hill (I and II) 

Star, 1990

Two books based on scripts produced by the Grundy Organisation (producers of the afternoon soaps Neighbours and Home and Away.


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 Trance Mission 

Henderson, 1996

Horror novel for teenagers involving astral travel, virtual reality, trance techno music and the transmogrification of souls.

Twelfth in Henderson's Funfax Horror series.


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 The Lost World 
 (I and II)
 

  Henderson, 1997
 


Two books on dinosaurs for children, based on the new Steven Spielberg movie sequel,

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

The Lost World: Jurassic Park, released 1997.



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click here The Lost World, Bk 3: Plant-eaters (Hunted)

For more information on the forthcoming movie see: The Lost World Page



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