Dennis Wheatley's Homes

Joan became a paying guest at 139 Oakwood Court, and DW became a paying guest in a ground-floor flat in the next block, No. 151.

He had a vast front room which was sparsely furnished, and as his part of the flat had no bedrooms, he slept in the kitchen. Joan arranged for the wife of the owner to cook him lunch.

It may have been uncomfortable, but he continued to work with his secretary on his War Papers and his books.

Because of his World War I experience, the tenants elected him to be their Group-Captain of Fire Fighters, and he drilled them conscientiously, although he confessed in his biography that he would have been scared stiff if he had been called upon to deal with anything larger than a run-of-the-mill incendiary bomb.

As he later recalled, by far the most co-operative members of the team were two pretty girls who lived in the basement flat and although he stated he did not 'explore the possibility', he had a shrewd suspicion they were tarts...

References : 'Drink and Ink' pages 206,207-8,211.