Only Mugs Work
Author | Walter Greenwood |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Crime drama |
Publisher | Hutchinson |
Publication date | 1938 |
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Only Mugs Work is a 1938 melodromatic crime novel by the British writer Walter Greenwood.[1] Greenwood had established his reputation in 1933 with Love on the Dole, set in a district closely modelled on working-class Salford. In this case the setting is shifted to London's Soho, but features a similar blend of realism and drama. It is set amongst the spivs of the capital city.[2] It was one of a number of novels that focused on the activities of the London underworld in the late 1930s including There Ain't No Justice, and Night and the City.
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Bibliography[]
- Hopkins, Chris. Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole: Novel, Play, Film. Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Partridge, Eric. A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American. Routledge, 2015.
- Walkowitz, Judith. Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London. Yale University Press, 2012.
Categories:
- 1938 British novels
- British crime novels
- Novels by Walter Greenwood
- Novels set in London
- Hutchinson (publisher) books
- 1930s novel stubs