For many years the Toronto Star Weekly novel was described as "complete". I wonder how many readers took that to mean that they had the entire novel in their hands. Or did they understand that "complete" meant not serialized. If the latter they were right. Each Sunday the Star Weekly novel was approximately 45,000 words. This is novella territory, although there are titles described as novels that are shorter.
I imagine the vast majority of the Star Weekly novels were condensed. But in the last decade about 125 novels were published in two parts. At 90,000 words it's likely some were not abridged.
Here is a discussion of one of the shortened novels.
Three Star Weekly novels:
July 31, 1954 - The Schirmer Inheritance by Eric Ambler (Heinemann, 1953)
April 12, 1948 - Search for a Scientist by Charles L. Leonard (Doubleday, 1947)
September 21, 1957 - Fogbound by Mark Derby. This appears to have been published nowhere else - either before or after the Star Weekly. We can't know if it was condensed from the manuscript.
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