Eric Nicol wrote Dickens of the Mounted, a fictional autobiography of Charles Dickens’ son Francis (some people have apparently believed it is authentic). In the book, Dickens encounters Harry Flashman.
No-one at the moment, perhaps. I remain confident that, in the fullness of time, a suitable author will appear and someone will say “Hey, you know what? I reckon that guy could write more Flashman novels!”
I mean, Sebastian Faulks has just written a James Bond novel (in the Ian Fleming style and era) that is, IMHO, as good as anything Ian Fleming ever wrote.
I once read a book filled with Philip Marlowe short stories written by various authors in Raymond Chandler style, and they were actually pretty good. Sherlock Holmes stories have been written by others. I have mixed feelings about it.
The guy who began writing Nero Wolfe isn’t as good as Rex Stout, but he’s better than nothin’. 
Although it didn’t help Brian Herbert, assuming the rumour that Frank left notes is true.
I would like to see more Flashman novels as I have read them all now, but I don’t know if anyone could pull it off.
A film would be fantastic though, although as stated earlier would offend almost everybody.
There is a film, the largely forgotten early 70’s Royal Flash, with Malcolm McDowell as Flashy and Oliver Reed as Bismarck: don’t know if its on DVD, though. It has its moments, but it really ain’t that good, going for bawdy farce rather than historical adventure with an unscrupulous bastard as hero. McDowell usually gives good villain, but he just ain’t Flashy: looks nothing like him, and plays him as just a comic Don Juan with a penchant for pratfalls. A difficult part to play, I suspect, but Flashman needs to look big, tough and hearty, with a bluff, manly exterior and a heart of pure blackness. I still think Timothy Dalton could nail it, although he’s a bit old for Young Flash now.
No more movies, please - the fun of the books is in the reading, not the plots.
I’m okay without the Civil War book, too - Fraser already gave us *two *set in the runup to it, and dropped enough hints elsewhere about what happened later. But I would have liked to have seen Flashy in Khartoum, saving the bacon of that glory-hunting fool Gordon while singlehandedly foiling the Mahdi, betwixt rogering a few of his wives and Mrs. Gordon too.
(Dio, who the bloody hell is Lisbeth? Do you perhaps mean Elspeth?)
Unfortunately, as history records, Gordon was, regrettably, on the business end of a Mahdist’s spear and thus deceased, so it’s a bit hard for Flashy to save him under those circumstances. 
On the other hand, there were plenty of exciting things going on in that part of the world in the latter part of the 19th Century. I’d like to think Flashman was in some way involved with Stanley’s (mis)Adventures searching for Livingstone; but as has been said one of the great things about the series are the adventures Fraser only hinted at…
Not me. I’m pissed. I would gladly have foregone March and Angel of the Lord for the true and complete story of Flashy during The War of Northern Agression. I’m sure Harry was outside Ford’s Theater one particular night…
Elspeth, yes. Flashy’s wife. My bad. Thanks for the correction.
You mean Flash for Freedom!, not March, right?
Flashy just might have been holed up in the barn with Booth and Herold, come to think of it … somehow after escaping that convict ship bound for Botany Bay …
I haven’t seen it. Given your discription I won’t put it on my Christmas list (assuming it even exists on DVD).
Maybe ElvisL1ves has a point, given the way that good books are butchered these days it may be best to keep the books and forego the movie.
Nope. We need Freedom to set things up. But I was bored to tears by Angel.
Flashman breaks Booth’s leg to cover his escape.
Oh, btw … Black Ajax was a fine read for a sports fan, and essentially a straight biography of the real Tom Molineaux as well as a finely-researched sports history, too.
But Mr. American is not worth your time - Fraser obviously didn’t outline it, didn’t have a story in mind, he just kept writing to see how it would turn out, but never found out. The characters and situation are too unreal to read straight, and not unreal enough to read as entertainment. Sorry, George.
It was also an absolutely stunning exercise in sheer prose craftsmanship, too: it’s told as a series of first-person interviews between an unnamed researcher and various people involved with Molineaux, interspersed with journalistic accounts and sporting accounts. I lost count of the number of completely different narrative voices its told in, including William Hazlitt, and yet Fraser never drops a ball once: as a display of sheer writing technique it’s utterly breathtaking, and had it been by a “literary” author, would have won every ficition award going.
I thoroughly enjoyed both of those. Even though I’m not a sports fan at all, I thought Black Ajax very readable. But I liked Mr. American the better of the two. I do agree the plot sort of petered out, but it was a good read while it lasted. The period setting I found very interesting, not to mention the cameo by an ancient Flashman himself.
EDIT: For those of you who have not read it, Flashman’s father takes a turn in Black Ajax.
You did read On the Oceans of Eternity, didn’t you? Marine Cpl. Kyle Cooper?
That was supposed to be Private Kyle Hook, not what I wrote above.
I read Flashman and the Tiger out of order; indeed skipped to the Zulu War stuff. A bit of the octogenarian Flashman, with satire of a famous “Historical” character,
Reputed to be an ancestor of Mr. Spock.