Later, he wrote long adventure novels dealing with Oriental life.

Film critic David Thomson wrote of Hawks in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film " Far from the the meek purveyor of Hollywood forms, he always chose to turn them upside down, To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, ostensibly an adventure and a thriller, are really love stories.

A storyteller from a very young age, the first stories Margaret Mitchell wrote were about her animals, and then she progressed to fairy tales and adventure stories.

That story revealed that Templar wrote an adventure novel featuring a South American hero not far removed from The Saint himself.

Andrew Chapman and Martin Allen also wrote a two book, two-player adventure titled the Clash of the Princes ( 1986 ).

After this adventure, he ended up in the Tooley Street kip, which he found so unpleasant that he wrote home for money and moved to more comfortable lodgings.

Appleton also wrote the popular World Builder adventure construction kit.

" Paul Glancey of Computer and Video Games consider the game superior to Lucasfilm's earlier adventure titles, and wrote that, " Usually the entertainment you get from an adventure is derived solely from solving puzzles, but the hilarious characters and situations, and the movie-like presentation ... make playing this more like taking part in a comedy film, so it's much more enjoyable.

He wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps and other adventure fiction.

Buchan wrote Prester John in 1910, the first of his adventure novels set in South Africa, and the following year he suffered from duodenal ulcers, which also inspired one of his characters in later books.

In addition, Preston wrote men's adventure novels under the pseudonyms of Mike McCray, Preston MacAdam, and Jack Hilt ( pen names that he shared with other authors ).

Taking what he had learned from authoring those books, he wrote the " Alex Kane " adventure novels about gay characters.

Film critic Pauline Kael wrote, " I didn't find it hard to accept the uninflected, deadpan tone, and to enjoy Buckaroo Banzai for its inventiveness and the gags that bounce off other adventure movies, other comedies.

He also wrote six adventure novels: Bride of Quietness ( 1933 ), Night of the White Bear ( 1971 ), The Enemy I Kill ( 1972 ), Raider's Moon, The Kidnapped Surgeon and Totem Dream.

Alexandre Dumas wrote numerous stories and historical chronicles of high adventure.

Walter Goodman of The New York Times wrote an unfavorable review and described the film " As an adventure film, Salvador has plenty of speed, grit and grime " and " Taking his cinematic as well as political lead from the work of Constantin Costa-Gavras, offers an interpretation of history, laying blame on conservative forces in the United States for abetting the horrors in El Salvador.

He wrote a ( non-Conan ) adventure story, " Blood of Belshazzar " which Roy Thomas adapted into a Conan story in Marvel Comics ' Conan the Barbarian # 27 as " The Blood of Bel-Hissar ".

Henry wrote, " proposing to avail myself of the new market, which was thus thrown open to British adventure, I ... procured a quantity of goods " and set out on the Ottawa River to Fort Michilimackinac.

In 1958, Zachary Ball, known as an author who wrote adventure stories for boys, wrote a fictional account of the early life of Mike Fink entitled Young Mike Fink.

It broke away from coding the game directly in a programming language such as FORTRAN or C. Instead, Platt developed A-code – a language for adventure programming – and wrote his extended version in that language.

Anthony Boucher wrote that " As usual, Ian Fleming has less story to tell in 90, 000 words than Buchan managed in 40, 000 ; but Thunderball is still an extravagant adventure ".

After Yeandle wrote one database-driven adventure game, Timeline, for Gilsoft, he realised that a database editor was needed, and it was this software which became The Quill.

In 1974, Robert Sadler wrote an outline for a post-apocalyptic adventure.

Observing the 40th anniversary of the incident in 2010, lunar module pilot Fred Haise wrote a letter thanking the UTIAS team for its contribution.

He wrote that the module provided some very interesting roleplaying situations and an excellent background for a campaign, but " provides little more than this on a long term basis ".

Leary later wrote, " We saw ourselves as anthropologists from the twenty-first century inhabiting a time module set somewhere in the Dark Ages of the 1960s.

He wrote " The Princes of the Lost Tribe " and " Ancient Queen of Somawathee " for Menaka De Shabandu and Bridget Halpe's choirs, respectively, based on historical incidents in ancient Sri Lanka.

The " puzzle " approach was carried even further into ingenious and seemingly impossible plots by John Dickson Carr — also writing as Carter Dickson — who is regarded as the master of the " locked room mystery ", and Cecil Street, who also wrote as John Rhode, whose detective, Dr. Priestley, specialised in elaborate technical devices, while in the US the whodunnit was adopted and extended by Rex Stout and Ellery Queen, among others.

A fellow left-wing historian, she wrote studies on women in the Chartist movement, and of Queen Victoria ( subtitled ' Gender and Power '); she was Professor of History at the University of Birmingham.

On January 1576 Oxford wrote to Lord Burghley from Siena about complaints that had reached him about his creditors ' demands, which included the Queen and his sister, and directing that more of his land be sold to pay them.

In April the Spanish ambassador, Bernardino de Mendoza, wrote to King Philip of Spain that it had been proposed that if Anjou were to travel to England to negotiate his marriage to the Queen, Oxford, Surrey and Windsor should be hostages for his safe return.

Widowed, weary of the unsettled life of a courtier, and anxious to provide for his children and himself, Oxford wrote to Burghley outlining a plan to purchase the manoral lands of Denbigh, in Wales, if the Queen would consent, offering to pay for them by commuting his £ 1, 000 annuity and agreeing to abandon his suit to regain the Forest of Essex.

' In September Oxford again wrote of ill health, regretting he had not been able to pay attendance to the Queen.

In 1975, the Queen, through her Private Secretary, wrote that she " has no part in the decisions which the Governor-General must take in accordance with the Constitution ".

Queen wrote many of the songs specifically to match the mood of the scenes when the songs were played, notably Brian May's " Who Wants to Live Forever ", concerning the doomed love of Connor and his wife Heather.

Daniel Purcell ( d. 1717 ), the youngest of the brothers, was also a prolific composer who wrote the music for much of the final act of The Indian Queen after Henry Purcell's death.

The Indian Queen followed in 1695, in which year he also wrote songs for Dryden and Davenant's version of Shakespeare's The Tempest ( recently, this has been disputed by music scholars < ref >

The castle's cultural prominence increased after Sir Walter Scott wrote Kenilworth in 1821 describing the royal visit of Queen Elizabeth.

In 1887, King Fataaiki wrote to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, requesting that Niue be placed under British protection, but his request was turned down.

Dr. John Ward's 1662 diary entry stating that Shakespeare wrote two plays a year " and for that had an allowance so large that he spent at the rate of £ 1, 000 a year " as a critical piece of evidence, since Queen Elizabeth I gave Oxford an annuity of exactly £ 1, 000 beginning in 1586 that was continued until his death.

He wrote letters to the Emperor, to Queen Mary of England, and to Cardinal Reginald Pole ( in which he confirmed Pole's Legateship in England ).

Jonathan Swift, for example, wrote in 1713 about " those who are now commonly called Prime Minister among us ", referring to Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin and Robert Harley, Queen Anne's Lord Treasurers and chief ministers.

A few years later, O ' Brien wrote another script intended as a direct sequel to the cult classic entitled Revenge of the Old Queen.

Alexander Pushkin wrote romantic and mysterious tales, including " The Blizzard " ( 1831 ) and " The Queen of Spades " ( 1834 ).

McGonagall realised if he were to succeed as a poet, he required a patron and wrote to Queen Victoria.

Lin also wrote to Queen Victoria, to submit in obeisance in the presence of the Chinese Emperor.

Fascinated by the " exotic " Caucasus, the Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov wrote the romantic poem Tamara (; 1841 ) in which he utilized the old Georgian legend about a siren-like mountainous princess whom the poet gave the name of Queen Tamar.

Author Gareth Russell wrote a summary of the evidence and relates that Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria, wrote her memoirs shortly before her death in 1612 ; in it the former lady in waiting and confident to Queen Mary I of England wrote of Anne Boleyn " She was convicted and condemned and was not yet twenty-nine years of age.

" William Camden wrote a history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England and was granted access to the private papers of Lord Burghley and to the state archives.