Arthur Quiller-Couch left unfinished at Quiller-Couch's death and was completed many years later by Daphne du Maurier. As she wrote in the "Sunday Telegraph" on April 1962, she began the job with considerable trepidation, at the request of Quiller-Couch's daughter and "in memory of happy evenings long ago when 'Q' was host at Sunday supper". He features as a main character, played by Leo McKern, in the 1992 BBC television feature "The Last Romantics". The story focuses on his relationship with his protégé, F. R. Leavis, and the students. His Cambridge inaugural lecture series, published as "On the Art of Writing", is
The Quiller Memorandum Pol appears calmly indifferent and asks Quiller to make a full report for the record as he arranges to round up the gang. A few minutes later, the phone rings to report they surprised and arrested all of Phoenix's members at their headquarters. Quiller asks if there was a woman among those found at Phoenix's headquarters and is told there was not. Later that day, Quiller walks into Inge's classroom. Inge explains she "was lucky; they let me go". She also claims the phone number he gave her didn't work. Quiller tells Inge, "We got them all of them... Well,