There may remain in later Francis novels some element of Nat Gould and Edgar Wallace, early writers of racing thrillers, but a more direct precedent may be the work of John Welcome, a friend and sometime collaborator.
Another influence may be John Buchan, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps.....
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