In an age well before the term Flight Attendant was coined and still well within the era of books and films like Coffee Tea and Me, the stewardess or air hostess, as the British called them. The two Touchfeather books are inherently sexist as only late Sixties spy fiction could be. In addition he penned two spy novels about Katy Touchfeather and two about down trodden ex-agent turned spy John Smith (one of which was filmed with Robert Horton as Smith).īefore going further we might as well deal with the elephant in the room. His credits include The Curse of Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula, Jack the Ripper, Brides of Dracula, The Mummy, The Hellfire Club, and Deadlier Than the Male. Sangster’s name is no doubt familiar to most readers of the blog as the man behind many of the classic line of films coming out of Hammer Studios. Blaser’s department, the books are both far better and tougher than they sound or than the paperback covers made out. Katy Touchfeather is to be regarded entirely as fiction.ĭespite that rather jaunty foreword by screenwriter and novelist Jimmy Sangster to his first of two novels featuring air hostess Katy Touchfeather, British agent in the mysterious Mr. Or ‘Sometimes our hostesses take young men home with them’. I would like to assure SAS, United, Quantas, American, Lufthansa and all other member companies of IATA that I make no suggestion that any of their employees could, or should, do the things Katy does - despite some recent airline advertisements which may have given their readers ideas to the contrary, e.g., ‘Save Friday night for Ingeborg Bechtel.
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