Thanks, Bonnie ~~ but I, together with my late wife Valerie whom he cites in the intro to "Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?", when his books came out was in constant correspondence with John Sutherland: in the intro to "The Literary Detective", he wrote that I had 'pursued [his] various suppositions with the relentlessness of an amiable Hound of the Baskervilles', going on to quote several instances, and concluding,'I could go on - and so, as I know to my cost and instruction, can Mr Myer. I am thankful that he did not examine my PhD thesis.'

~M~

He seemed a friendly and well-meaning man, but a bit vague and disorganised ~~ kept inviting us to join him for lunch at UCL, but then could somehow never be pinned down to a date; so, alas, for all his cordial gestures we never actually met. Oh, well...