Trouble on the Thames (British Library Spy Classics)
Language: English
Published by Poisoned Pen Press October 2015, 2015
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: 2nd Act Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.2nd Act Books
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Condition: Used - Very good
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- Title
- Trouble on the Thames (British Library Spy Classics)
- Author
- Victor Bridges
- Publisher
- Poisoned Pen Press October 2015
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- Used - very good
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1464204934
- ISBN 13
- 9781464204937
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction
Spy thriller fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
"A literary craftsman, who could spring surprises with his humour and sense of suspense." --The Times
Owen Bradwell is a courageous naval officer who returns to England in the 1930s. He believes that his career is over because he has become colour-blind--but with Nazi Germany an increasing menace, the authorities cannot do without Bradwell, and he is assigned a special mission.
A former acquaintance of Bradwell's has been trapped into betraying his country's secrets by a Nazi agent. Bradwell is sent to spy on the spy, and travels down the Thames on a surveillance trip under cover of a fishing weekend. Things soon take an unexpected turn, and Bradwell finds himself in the company of a dead man, and a pretty young interior decorator called Sally.
Will Bradwell triumph over the villains, and will he and Sally fall in love?
This neglected thriller from 1945 is a pacy and entertaining read, rich with the classic twists of the genre: amnesia, blackmail, and a convict's escape from Dartmoor.
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About the Author
VICTOR BRIDGES (1878-1972) was a prolific author of crime and thriller novels from the years before the First World War to the 1960s. Much of his fiction was set in Essex and East Anglia. His most popular book, Greensea Island, sold over 300,000 copies, but his work has been unduly forgotten since his death.
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