Raymond Sheppard's illustrations for the Animal Doctor show his flare and talent for depicting animals - he was a natural choice. He appeared to be a tidy man even in death leaving £286,286 in his will! Hugh Meynell remembers that at his uncle's funeral his friend, the actor Peter Barkworth, read a poem by Thomas Hardy, as Laurence had requested. His obituary appeared in the Times of Tuesday 18 April 1989. He died in Brighton on the 14th April 1989, just before his 90th birthday. His bibliography can been seen together with a photo here, and Steve Holland has a small gallery of Meynell's thriller covers. His fascinating story can be read online so there's no point in me re-telling it. Meynell had many pseudonyms and wrote as a man and a woman! He was born in 1899 and died in 1989 and is most well known for his thrillers and some of his books were made into films. The blurb states 'Each book combines a ﬁrst-rate story with authentic details about a particular career.' and 'story' should be taken literally. THE YOUNG ARCHITECT by Laurence Walter Meynell, 1958.THE ANIMAL DOCTOR by Laurence Meynell, 1956 (illustrated by Raymond Sheppard).HOTEL DOORWAY by Lorna Lewis, 1953 (Illustrated by Charlotte Hough).

AN ACTOR’S LIFE FOR ME by Roland Pertwee, 1953 (Illustrated by T.POLICEMAN IN THE FAMILY by Laurence Walter Meynell, 1953 (illustrated by Neville Dear).THE MONDAY STORY by James Leasor, 1951 (Illustrated by Evadné Rowan).THE YOUNG SCHOOLMASTER by Aubrey de Selincourt, 1948 (illustrated by F.W.Jobson and the topic was the Merchant Navy) - more on Dawlish and Raymond Sheppard another day EXMOOR, Laurence Meynell (Robert Hale, 1953). THE FIRST TRIPPER by Peter Dawlish, 1947 (Illustrated by P. In common with most other writers, HW undertook book reviews for a number of periodicals and newspapers as.STUDENTS AT QUEEN’S by John Stuart Arey, 1944 The next book fairs will be BURY ST EDMUNDS (click here for details) and SHERBORNE (click here).The series included the following titles spread over two decades as far as I can trace: The Animal Doctor by Laurence Meynell was illustrated by Raymond Sheppard and is one in a series called 'Oxford Career Books'.

Die by the Book by Laurence Meynell