- English Spy stories, Spy stories, English, Classic Literature, Fiction
From the book:The trouble from which great events were to come began when Everard Dominey, who had been fighting his way through the scrub for the last three quarters of an hour towards those thin, spiral wisps of smoke, urged his pony to a last despairing effort and came crashing through the great oleander shrub to pitch forward on his head in the little clearing.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- First published
- 1920
- Pages
- 236
- Publisher
- Capital Communications, Incorporated, CruGuru, IndyPublish.com
- Editions
- 258
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781178831863
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“The trouble from which great events were to come began when Everard Dominey, who had been fighting his way through the scrub for the last three quarters of an hour towards those thin, spiral wisps of smoke, urged his pony to a last despairing effort and came crashing through the great oleander shrub to pitch forward on his head in the little clearing.”
An English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers.
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