Talk:The Secret Adversary

Public Domain
Is the book in the public domain?--Cvb3 (talk) 15:38, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is available through Project Gutenberg, in several formats. --Prairieplant (talk) 15:27, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

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1921 money values into 2003 money values
This sentence in the article, under Publication history, "Christie was paid £50 for the serialisation rights (£1,545 in 2003 currency)." is backed up by the biography giving the original price, and then uses this source, now saved by a bot, to support turning that amount into a 15-year-old amount, far higher.
 * O'Donoghue, Jim and Louise Goulding. “Consumer Price Inflation since 1750”, Economic Trends. No. 604, March 2004. pp. 38–46; retrieved 25 June 2009. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 June 2009. Retrieved 25 September 2007.
 * The problem with the source as it is now is that there is no table showing inflation of the British pound from when Christie got the money in the 1920s and 2003. It discusses May 2018 inflation curves, not going back to the last century. I am not sure this is of much value, to know the inflation rate to 2003, or to 2018, but the first problem is that there is not a source for turning 20 pounds into another value in any year of this, the 21st century. If someone else can fix this great. Otherwise, I suggest removing the sentence and the supposed source of the value of 50 pounds nearly 100 years later. --Prairieplant (talk) 14:33, 25 June 2018 (UTC)