Thanks David for such clarity, I along with many others I'm sure await the next instalment with great anticipation and are always fascinated by the snippets, you let us have prior to  publication. I'm on part 6 of the Blue Demon..(bit later than normal, due to other commitments) and agree wholeheartedly with your comments on filmaking..Costa and the crew live vividly in my imagination and have grown enormously as characters from the first book to the present with all the human frailties and emotions of old friends, to have someone else's vision of Costa, Peroni and all, would I feel be similar to meeting your 'Hero' of many years to find he/she nothing like you would have expected and we all know I'm sure how disappointing that can be !

Finally to dilute the characters and the story line by producing more books at shorter intervals is a mistake made by many both in the written and film/tv format and one of the sadest sentences we hear often these days is 'it's not like it used to be !'.

So thanks and I hope other Blog readers will agree , let's get even more deeper characterisation and maybe the occasional new personality and in the meantime lot's of writings  and photos on the Blog to keep us and hopefully you happy....till the next time !

Have a fantstic weekend at St. Hildas, sorry again not to be there and I hope you'll let us all know over the next few days how it all went !

Cheers
Geoff