The Further Adventures of Doctor Syn is the fourth in the series of Doctor Syn

Doctor Syn

The Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn is the smuggler hero of a series of novels by Russell Thorndike. The first book, Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh was published in 1915. The story idea came from smuggling in the 18th century Romney Marsh, where brandy and tobacco were brought in at night...

novels by Russell Thorndike

Russell Thorndike

Arthur Russell Thorndike was a British actor and novelist, best known for the Doctor Syn of Romney Marsh novels...

. It is a highly episodic

Episodic

Episodic can refer to* The nature of television series that are divided into short programs. See Episode* Episodic memory relates to the types of memory that result from specific incidents in a lifetime...

 series of adventures as Syn, in his guise as the Scarecrow

Scarecrow

A scarecrow is, essentially, a decoy, though traditionally, a human figure dressed in old clothes and placed in fields by farmers to discourage birds such as crows or sparrows from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops.-History:In Kojiki, the oldest surviving book in Japan...

 outwits the king's agents and keeps his band of Dymchurch

Dymchurch

Dymchurch is a village and civil parish in the Shepway District of Kent, England. The village is located on the coast five miles south-west of Hythe, and on the Romney Marsh. It is typical of this part of the coast, having been a village which became larger during the 1930s...

 smugglers out of prison. The novel inspired the William Buchanan novel Christopher Syn, upon which the Disney film The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh is based, hence the similarities between the plots.

Further Adventures of Doctor Syn was published in 1936. It follows the events of Doctor Syn Returns

Doctor Syn Returns

Doctor Syn Returns is the third in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike. It tells the story of Syn, who has tired of piracy, tries to settle down as the vicar of the little town of Dymchurch in Kent, England....

and is followed by Courageous Exploits of Doctor Syn

Courageous Exploits of Doctor Syn

Courageous Exploits of Doctor Syn is the fifth in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike. Like the previous volume it is an episodic collection of adventures...

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