ARLEN, Michael

ARLEN, Michael
(1895-1956)
   UK-Armenian writer, born Dikran Kouyoumidjian, who is mainly remembered for The Green Hat (1924) and other novels of fashionable London life. His supernatural fiction is to be found in These Charming People (coll 1923) and May Fair (coll 1924); Ghost Stories (coll 1927) assembles the supernatural stories from the previous volumes. MA's sf novel, Man's Mortality (1933) - although derivative of Rudyard KIPLING's pax aeronautica tale With the Night Mail (1905; 1909 chap US) - vividly depicts the collapse of International Aircraft and Airways in 1987 after 50 years of oligarchy; the melodramatic story carries some moral bite. Hell! Said the Duchess (1934) is set in 1938, with Winston Churchill as premier. A succubus is impersonating the duchess, who is accused of being a Jane the Ripper but is eventually exonerated.
   About the author: Michael Arlen (1975) by Harry Keyishian. See also: TRANSPORTION.

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