Talk:Amazing Quest of Doctor Syn

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De-merging

De-merging with citations, I have addressed notability and reference issues. I need to flesh out the plot and a few other things. Probably needs an infobox too. Per the sources, this is the next novel in sequence after Further Adventures, not sure why they were out of order in the other articles. Justinkrivers (talk) 02:05, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Publication date

I've seen several sources list this as the sixth book in the series, but the newspaper sources list this as announced for publication in fall 1937, and then reviewed by the press beginning in early 1938, and Courageous Exploits appears in reviews beginning in late 1939. So there's an approximately two year spread between the two titles. Not sure where the error came from but I have corrected it here. I suspect that other sources have picked up the erroneous ordering from a previous version of this article and then it has just been repeated. Justinkrivers (talk) 15:58, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I checked the Arrow Books version, and it says that Courageous comes first and Amazing Quest comes next chronologically. But the date of events in Amazing Quest is 1780 and the date in Courageous Exploits is 1781. So, if we assume that the earliest close to original publication source is likely the most accurate, then we should number Amazing Quest before Courageous, and treat the Arrow timeline as a mistake. Justinkrivers (talk) 18:33, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The dust jacket of the first edition from Rich & Cowan says that the story follows chronologically from Further Adventures. Justinkrivers (talk) 13:12, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]