Bibliograph

The mammoth book of short spy novels, edited by Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg

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The mammoth book of short spy novels, edited by Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The mammoth book of short spy novels

Oclc number

62536044

Responsibility statement

edited by Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg

Summary

From award-winning editor Bill Pronzini comes The Mammoth Book of Short Spy Novels<U+2014>a classic book updated for spymasters. Thirteen outstanding spy and espionage novellas, complete and unabridged, are gathered here in one terrific volume. They represent a specially chosen collection from the most accomplished writers in the field, including W. Somerset Maugham on Ashenden, his operative in World War I and Ian Fleming on 007 in the Caribbean, as well as Leslie Charteris, Erle Stanley Gardner, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and John Jakes, among others. These works span more than seventy-five years of espionage writing in the United States and England, and feature secret agents, counterspies, and double agents in settings from Japan to the former Eastern Bloc, and from World War I onward

Table Of Contents

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The traitor / W. Somerset Maugham -- Tokyo, 1941 / Cornell Woolrich -- The sizzling saboteur / Leslie Charteris -- The danger zone / Erle Stanley Gardner -- Betrayed / John D. MacDonald -- Deep-sleep / Bruce Cassiday -- The people of the peacock / Edward D. Hoch -- Dr. Sweetkill / John Jakes -- The giggle-wrecker / Peter O'Donnell -- The spoilers / Michael Gilbert -- Octopussy / Ian Fleming

Target audience

adult

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Short spy novels

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