- Legal stories, George Cary (Fictitious character), Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
George Carey, lawyer, was given the task of going through the files on the Schneider Johnson case, making sure nothing had been overlooked. He discovers something in the fales claims and dead-end leads which makes this case more than a missing-heir-to-a-vast-fortune scene.
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Classical in form, grave, cool and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Eric Ambler
- First published
- 1953
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- William Heinemann, Collins, Berkley
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780736615167
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Eric Clifford Ambler OBE was an influential British author of thrillers, in particular spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. He also worked as a screenwriter. Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda. Source: Wikipedia
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