Thornton Butterworth

It was, she said, an adaptation from a play by H. V. Esmond entitled Birds of a Feather, whose chief role was an old Jew, grand, petty, noble, and inglorious, generous and impossibly mean—but...

The title is a phrase used to describe the evangelist St Luke . This seems to have been the last novel that NJ published through Thornton Butterworth before switching to Hutchinson .

This novel was published by Hutchinson , to whom NJ moved from Butterworth as a result of the lucrative, long-standing contract negotiated with Hutchinson by her agent, Raymond Savage . As the series took...