The Pleasure Garden is set in a seedy commercial Eden into which murder intrudes: a kind of Paradise Lost. The Pleasure Garden (1976), the cycle of stories called The Apprentices (1976-78) and The Confidence Man (1978) were concerned with religious issues and were much influenced by the Bible, which he declared to be a far richer source of inspiration than the Norse and Celtic mythologies then in vogue. Later Garfield novels, from the mid-1970s onward, developed greater depth and increasingly became general rather than specifically "children's" fiction, though still appearing on the children's lists.
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