Anthony Powell was an English novelist, memoirist, and critic, best known for his twelve-volume novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time.
Anthony Powell
Temporary Kings
Heinemann, 1973. Vol. 11 of the novel sequence A Dance To the Music of Time.
Lived at 1 Chester Gate for 17 years from the mid-1930's.
The Stevens house in Regent's Park... had room for a marquee to be built out on a flat roof at the back.
A musical party is held there in the summer of 1959, subsequently a fight breaks out amongst the departing guests. A sentence, 'A breeze, fresh, almost country-scented, blew in from the Park's tall cluster of trees', is the only description.
Faces In My Time
Heinemann, 1980. Vol. 3 of his autobiography To Keep the Ball Rolling.
a youngish woman in Regent's Park. She turned out to be a virgin, and the motives were never traced...the corpse removed...in a parti-coloured blanket, a macabre scene
Recalls from the winter of 1946-7 the murder.
The Strangers All Are Gone
Heinemann, 1982. Vol. 4 of the autobiography.
a briefly-owned Russian Blue, victim of an accident in the Outer Circle
Mentions his cat. Violence and sudden death seem to have been the author's abiding impressions.