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Patrick Hamilton: Words,Whisky and Women

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His plays Rope and Gaslight made the sex obsessed, booze fuelled Hamilton famous. But his urban novels are now seen as his best work. To coincide with a version of his classic trilogy Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky (tomorrow at 9pm), this biography asks why the Marxist maverick has been largely written out of literary history. Richard E Grant narrates. Behind the scenes: page 14

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