“WHISPERING GALLERY” PROVED A FORGERY.
ALLEGED WRITER DISPROVES AUTHORSHIP. By Telegrapli.—Press Assn. —Copyright. “ Sydney Sun ” Cable. (Received November 23, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, November 22. “Tjhe Whispering Gallery” proves to be a forgery. The alleged author, Sir James Renneli Rodd, has disproved his authorship. “We have been the victims of a most ingenious hoax,” was the salient sentence in a signed statement by two directors of the publishing firm of John Lane. It was personally handed to the “Daily Mail.” They explained that the typescript, “The Whispering Gallery,” reached them through a literary agent who declined to submit the tests which the directors suggested, with a view to determining the authenticity of the book. The directors admit that the “Daily Mail's” exposure was justified, and that the book should never have been published. They are destroying every copy they can obtain.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18011, 23 November 1926, Page 5
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