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Richard and Frances Myles are preparing for their annual European summer vacation in 1939 when they are visited at their Oxford college by old friend Peter Galt, who has a seemingly simple job for them.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Helen MacInnes
- First published
- 1941
- Pages
- 333
- Publisher
- IM Press, Harcourt, LITTLE BROWN & CO @
- Editions
- 38
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780006153894
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Helen Clark MacInnes was a Scottish-American writer of espionage novels.
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