From Ian Coster’s Column, Daily Mail, 18 May 1949

TRUANT: Missing from cocktail party to launch new series of Tom Merry books. 75-year-old author CHARLES HAMILTON better known as FRANK RICHARDS, creator of BILLY BUNTER AND CO. Explaining on the phone from his Broadstairs home, Hamilton said: "I’m too busy to get up to London. I turn out 30,000 words a week and the rest of the time I stick to the piano stool."