wiki-illiam #107: q12

[dubdobdee]

Unmask:

i: Rosa
I've seen SB's tentative answer to this, but it has vanished! Sean can you repost it (SB via googlebooks)
ii: Aymer
Aymer is VALLANCE in Free Fishers (SB via googlebooks)
iii: Reinmar
Reinmar is DR CHRISTOPH in "The Loathly Opposite", a story in The Runagates Club (SB via googlebooks)
iv: Clarence Donne
The Graf OTTO VON SCHWABING, Richard Hannay's foe in various John Buchan novels, was an officer of the Imperial Guard and German spy notorious good with disguise: in Mr Standfast he poses as a Kansan journalist called Clarence Donne (RB via google)
v: Alexander Thomson
SANDY ARBUTHNOT uses this name in The Three Hostages (BBP, google)
vi: Captain Theophilus Digby
In Buchan's The 39 Steps, A freelance spy called Franklin P. Scudder calls on Hannay to ask for help, but is murdered -- the corpse is given the name Digby for reasons I can't recall (PJ)
vii: Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson is ALASTAIR MACLEAN in Midwinter (SB via googlebooks)
viii: James Smith
James Smith is VALDEMAR HARALDSEN in The Island of Sheep
(SB via googlebooks)
ix: Newsom
In The House of the Four Winds, Newsom the chauffeur is really PRINCE JOHN (DDD via googlebooks)
x: Tuke
In Power-house, Tuke is really ROUTH (DDD via googlebooks)

Comments

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

The only Tuke I can think of is the painter of impressionist homoerotic young men, and I can't see how he might be unmasked....

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

Was 'Tuke' a nom de...er, brush?

In The 39 Steps, the corpse of Captain Digby is mistaken for a man called Scudder, so I'm assuming that 'unmask' means 'reveal the true/secret identity of', Scooby Doo style.

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

...in which case James Smith must be LL Cool J (I went to all this effort to memorise pop stars' real names for pub quizzes and I'll be damned if I don't get to use them! Someone ask me abt Bob Zimmerman and James Osterman, quick!)