Mr. Finchley Goes to Paris

9781788421621Preceded byMr. Finchley Discovers His England Followed byMr. Finchley Takes the Road 

Mr. Finchley Goes to Paris is a comedy novel by the British writer Victor Canning.^[1] It was the second of a trilogy featuring the mild-mannered Edgar Finchley. The first publication in 1938 was by Hodder and Stoughton in the UK and Carrick and Evans in the USA.^[2] It was included in the Heinemann Uniform Edition of 1974, and a new edition has recently appeared (2019) from Farrago Books. In 1990 it was adapted for radio by the BBC starring Richard Griffiths^[3]

Synopsis

The mild-mannered clerk Mr. Finchley is just about to propose marriage, when he is sent by his firm to Paris where he enjoys a further series of adventures, returning a week later with an orphan boy. He completes his proposal and they adopt the boy.

References

Bibliography

• Ehland, Christoph and Wächter, Cornelia. Middlebrow and Gender, 1890-1945. BRILL, 2016.
• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.

External links

• Full bibliography
• The Victor Canning Pages