| 词条 | Archibald Thomas Pechey |
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| name = Archibald Thomas Pechey | image = | imagesize = | caption = | pseudonym = Valentine Mark Cross | birth_date = {{Birth date|1876|9|26}}[1] | birth_place = West Ham, Essex, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1961|11|29|1876|9|26|mf=y}}[1] | death_place = Wells, Somerset, England | occupation = Novelist and lyricist | nationality = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | spouse = Bijou Sortain Hancock | partner = | children = Fanny Cradock | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | signature = | website = }} Archibald Thomas Pechey (26 September 1876 in West Ham, Essex[2] – 29 November 1961 in Wells, Somerset, England[3]) often credited simply as Valentine, was an English lyricist and novelist. The pen name Valentine was derived from his mother's family the Vallentins, who were London distillers. Pechey's maternal grandfather Sir James Vallentin (1814–1870) was Knight Sheriff of London, and Master of the Worshipful Company of Distillers. By the 1880s Pechey's uncle Grimble Vallentine was running the business in Lambeth. His cousin John Franks Vallentin (1882–1914) was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1914. Pechey as "Valentine" often wrote lyrics in conjunction with composer James W. Tate, including for The Beauty Spot.[4] Songs written by Tate and Valentine (with F. Clifford Harris) include "A Bachelor Gay" and "A Paradise for Two" (both 1917, from The Maid of the Mountains). Pechey wrote stories, such as "The Adjusters" (1922) and "An Exploit of The Adjusters: The Man Who Scared The Bank" (1929), under the name Valentine. "The Adjusters" and its sequels are about a group of amateur crime fighters with complementary talents, who "adjust" the results of the law, often tricking criminals into trapping themselves using a logical analysis of the crime, so that the guilty are punished and the good are protected, released or compensated. The Adjusters characters are Daphne Wrayne, a sporting society girl; Sir Hugh Williamson, a noted African explorer; James Treviller, a handsome young nobleman; Martin Everest, a handsome lawyer; and Alan Sylvester, an actor. Pechey married Bijou Sortain Hancock,[5] and was the father of well known television cook Fanny Cradock. His wife’s extravagance and his own susceptibility to gambling left him with sizeable debts. He seems to have tried to avoid the debts by moving around the country. He left Herne Bay in Kent and moved to Swanage in Dorset, then to Bournemouth in Hampshire, where his brother Richard Francis Pechey (1872–1963) had become the Vicar of Holy Trinity Church in 1919. He finally moved to Wroxham in Norfolk, c1927, where his debtors caught up with him and by 1930 he was appearing in Norfolk's bankruptcy court faced with debts of £3,500. Once out of debt, Pechey moved to Somerset, switched his pseudonym to Mark Cross and wrote over 45 crime novels under that name between 1934 and 1961, many of them about the Adjusters. The novels include the thrillers The Shadow of the Four and Who Killed Henry Wickenstrom. Pechey also drew the cover art for some stories. Selected novels{{col-begin}}{{col-3}}
References1. ^1 Who Was Who, Volume 6: 1961-1970. London: A&C Black Ltd. 1971 2. ^GRO Register of Births: DEC 1876 4a 119 W. HAM - Archibald Thomas Pechey 3. ^GRO Register of Deaths: DEC 1961 7c 282 WELLS - Archibald T. Pechey, aged 85 4. ^Gaiety Theatre production of The Beauty Spot (1917)- Over the Footlights pg. 21 5. ^GRO Register of Marriages: JUN 1908 4a 161 W. HAM - Archibald Thomas Pechey = Bijou Sortain Hancock External links
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