Seven short stories about spies, selected and with a genial introduction by Eric Ambler, who gives a useful summary of the spy genre from the turn of the century up to the early 1960s: the late-19th century background of Sherlock Holmes/Rider Haggard popular adventure yarns then suddenly the first classic spy novel, The Riddle of […]
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To Catch A Spy edited by Eric Ambler (1964)
Posted by Simon on December 16, 2014
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