In my Faber Fanfare edition of The Thuggery Affair there is an introductory note, dated 13th September 1964 'Only For Those Who, Like The Author, Prefer Accuracy If They Can Get It', which mentions that the first Marlow story was written in 1947:
In 1947, naval cadets did still enter The Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, at the age of 13. Since then, after various changes of mind, Their Lordships of the Admiralty have settled for 18. Short of expelling Peter Marlow from Dartmouth (something which is unlikely to happen) the only other way of coping with this seems to be to say that the fictional time in which the Marlows exist is in the period called Since the War; and that anything true during that time can be true and happening "now" in the books I write about them.
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Date: 2006-05-09 07:11 pm (UTC)