- Fiction, suspense
A fairly authentic flying based thriller, very definitely of its 1960s period . The plot concerns jewels missing for some 10 years which come to light in a wreck of a Douglas Dakota aeroplane on a Greek island. Some of the plot is over-involved and not entirely convincing , and the ending is rather weak , but this is a good light read on a rainy afternoon!
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Gavin Lyall
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 273
- Publisher
- ISIS Large Print Books, Pan, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780330104883
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Gavin Tudor Lyall (9 May 1932 – 18 January 2003) was an English author of espionage thrillers.
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