The Avengers was a popular 1950s British television series featuring Patrick Macnee as the character John Steed and Diana Rigg as Emma Peel. Steed and Emma were agents for an unnamed secret intelligence agency—a spoof of the James Bond capers.

The player’s sexual chemistry suffused throughout the episodes—with action left un-played and unsaid more often than not. In many of the shows, there were charmingly faint and sometime patently erotic innuendos: double entendres, roguish bon mots, and sensual play that spoke of carnal relations.

In this concise monograph, Shelton explores these clues to form a plausible decision.

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Lamplight Press, 2015

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