![]() ![]() ![]() The stories are best read in chronological sequence. After writing the final novel first, Russell Thorndike went back and filled in his characer's earlier history. This was the first book written, but it should be the last one you read. So it was, to say the least, incongruous that he would sometimes break into a pirate song - the favourite song of the notorious Captain Clegg who had been hanged as a pirate ten years before.īut eventually Doctor Syn's secret identity became known - and added to the mystery of Romney Marsh. The Vicar of Dymchurch was the genial, kindly, and apparently gentle Doctor Syn. The village of Dymchurch lies next to Romney Marsh - visited, so the villagers allege, by Jack O'Lanterns and Demon Riders. Dr Syn, Alias The Scarecrow (1963 feature film) The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh would give McGoohan international exposure and launch him as a movie actor, and he was pleased with a role that gave him many layers of subtlety between the character’s dual personality. Syn was a brilliant scholar and rousing preacher as well as being one of the finest swordsmen, riders, and seamen in all of England. The full series in chronological order (with my one line summaries of the plot of each in bracket afterward) is as follows Syn was a man who would have succeeded in any career. This is chronologically the seventh and last book in the sequence of Russell Thorndike's seven highly entertaining novels about the Reverend Doctor Syn, the apparently harmless vicar of Dymchurch in Kent who led a secret life as a pirate and smuggler. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This version was shown in Europe as well as Central and South America through 1966. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow, the British theatrical version was released on a double bill with The Sword in the Stone, and ran during the 1963 Christmas season (advertised in the January 1964 issue of Photoplay). If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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