Editing Dornford Yates (section)

==Related works==

In 1948 [[Richard Usborne]] wrote an article entitled ''Ladies and Gentlemen v. Cads and Rotters'' about the works of Dornford Yates in Volume 3, Number 11 of ''The Windmill'', a literary magazine. Yates was not pleased by the article, but nevertheless Usborne went on to write ''Clubland Heroes'' (1953; reprinted 1974 and 1983) in which he examined the work of Yates and two contemporary thriller writers, [[John Buchan]] and [[H. C. McNeile|Sapper]].

The 1973 novel ''[[Indecent Exposure (Sharpe novel)|Indecent Exposure]]'' by [[Tom Sharpe]] plays up the 'Englishman' that Dornford Yates created in his novels.  There is a group of characters in the satirical novel who style themselves as the 'Dornford Yates' club and who try to emulate the 'Master' in avoiding reality and a changing world. Sharpe was later hired by the BBC to adapt ''[[She Fell Among Thieves (TV film)|She Fell Among Thieves]]'' for television, and used the same satirical approach.

In 1983 Sharpe wrote an introduction to a reprint of Yates' first Chandos thriller ''[[Blind Corner (novel)|Blind Corner]]'', one of a series issued by J.M.Dent & Sons under the title ''Classic Thrillers''. Further Yates' books in the series were ''[[Perishable Goods]]'', with an introduction by [[Richard Usborne]]; ''[[Blood Royal]]'', with an introduction by A.J.Smithers; ''[[Fire Below]]''; ''She Fell Among Thieves'', with an introduction by [[Ion Trewin]]; ''Gale Warning''; ''Cost Price''; ''Red in the Morning''; ''An Eye For a Tooth''; and ''The Best of Berry'', with an introduction by Jack Adrian.

Following the publication of ''Dornford Yates - A Biography'' in 1982, Smithers went on to write ''Combined Forces'' in 1983, subtitled "Being the Latter-Day adventures of Maj-Gen Sir Richard Hannay, Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond and Berry and Co", which has the heroes (and some villains) of Buchan, Sapper and Yates meeting up after World War Two and having further adventures together.

In 2015, Kate Macdonald published ''Novelists Against Social Change: Conservative Popular Fiction, 1920–1960'', which examines the work of Buchan, Yates and [[Angela Thirkell]].