Yesterday I asked for the one word that linked the three books below:
Looks like I managed to get one past all of you. Perhaps, in my zeal to provide you with unGoogleable questions, I came up with one that was too hard. So I’ll make it easier, as I promised I would.
Here’s a fourth member of the set:
What one word, of eight letters, capitalised, connects the four?
I shall wait till next Friday before giving you the answer. Unless, of course, someone gets it earlier.
Ok so I’m almost sure I’ve cracked it.
In each of these books the protagonist goes by a quintessentially English name “Algernon”.
In Enid Byton’s five find outer, its Frederic Algernon Troteville;
Algernon Montgomery Lacey or Algy is Biggles’ cousin;
Oscar Wilde’s play, The Importance of being Earnest features Algernon Moncrieff, an idle young gentleman and finally,
Greybeard, was born Algernon Timberlane.
There you have it.
Didn’t think I needed to say it, but @Viki is right. Algernon. That’s the answer I was looking for.