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Helen Clark MacInnes (1907?1985) was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels. MacInnes published her first novel during World War II, and her early novels are all based in that setting. Later she wrote more about characters within the context of the Cold War. Many of MacInnes? novels are continuing to be renewed for print, cementing her legacy as one of the trailblazing female international affairs novelists in the World War II and Cold War eras. Each of the 4 novels were international best-sellers. 2 were made into films. All are Fawcett Crest Books, which means contents complete and unabridged, also the 1st time published in this form (ie as Mass Market Paperbacks). Titles in this set are: Neither Five Nor Three (1951), SBN 449-02260-150. No LCCN. MSR = US $1.50. An insidious evil web of terror and treason was lurking beneath the surface of Rona Metford's love affair with an ambitious young journalist. Strange events and stranger friends suddenly triggered off an explosion that plunged her into the very center of a violent and dangerous conspiracy. 320pp. Decision at Delphi (1960), SBN 449 01972-150. No LCCN. MSR = US $1.50. New York architect Ken Strang accepted a routine assignment to sketch Greek ruins from a national travel magazine. What he didn't know was from the moment he boarded ship, he had become the pawn in a murderous game of international intrique. 448pp. The Venetian Affair (1963), SBN 449-02187-150. No LCCN. MSR = US $1.50. After an American diplomat inexplicably explodes a bomb during an international peace conference in Venice, killing himself and everyone in the room, CIA boss Frank Rosenfeld calls ex-agent Bill Fenner in on the case. Fenner is forced to find his ex-wife and save her from the clutches of both the good guys and the bad guys, while still obtaining the Vaugiroud report and uncovering the bombing conspiracy. Made into a 1967 MGM movie starring Robert Vaughn, Elke Somme,r & Boris Karloff. 352pp. The Salzburg Connection (1968), SBN 449-02184-150. LCCN:68-24394. MSR = US$1.50. The chest hidden in a lake high in the Austrian mountains has been found. Men have been killed for it and death stalked all who search for it. Bill Mathison, an American lawyer on vacation in Salzburg, gets caught-up in the search for the chest along with two beautiful women.and one of them would betray him. Made into a 1972 20th Century-Fox movie starring Barry Newman, Anna Karina and Karen Jenson. 384pp. Set of 4 mass market paperbacks housed in a slip case. Paperback covers are complete although with creases and tears stabilized with tape. There are sticker scars on spines and reading creases in spines. Slipcase is complete with top edge having been taped. Shows shelfwear and handling. Interiors are complete and unmarked, but glue binding has dried so loose pages and loose sections exist. Wear as seen on paperbacks having exciting stories: creases in covers, bent pages. Copyrights for individual titles given above, none stated or implied for the collection. No SBN nor LCCN for the collection. Fawcett catalog for the collection: 285. Printed in U.S.A. No edition/print-run info found. MSR as a collection = US $6.00. Seller Inventory # 007957
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Title: Four HELEN MacINNES Superb Suspense ...
Publisher: Fawcett Publications, Inc., Greenwich, CT U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1970
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Illustrator: Not Stated
Condition: Near Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
