SLSL Intro "Novels of Intrigue"

[Dave Monroe]

   "I was also able to steal, or let us say 'derive,'
in more subtle ways.  I had grown up reading a lot of
spy fiction, novels of intrigue, notably those of John
Buchan.  The only book of his that anyone remmebers
now is The Thirty-nine Steps, but he wrote half a
dozen more just as good or better.  They were all in
my hometown library.  So were E. Phillips Oppenheim,
Helen MacInnes, Geoffrey Household, and many others as
well.  The net effect was to build up in my uncritical
brain a peculiar shadowy vision of the history
preceding the two world wars.  Political
decision-making and official documents did not figure
in this nearly as much as lurking, spying, false
identities, psychological games." (SL, "Intro," p. 18)


John Buchan (1875-1940)

http://www.johnbuchansociety.co.uk/

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/5084/Buchan.htm

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/buchan.htm

http://www.slainte.org.uk/scotauth/buchadsw.htm

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/John_Buchan.htm


The Thirty-nine Steps (1915)

http://gutenberg.hwg.org/xhtmlfiles/39stp10xht.html

http://encyclopediaoftheself.com/classic_books_online/39stp10.htm

http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.1059/

http://www.pinkmonkey.com/dl/library1/digi336.pdf

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/books/n0/n3121.htm?authorid=377

http://www.geocities.com/gregorym101/hannay.html


E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946)

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9955/oppenheim.html

http://eng-wdixon.unl.edu/oppenheim.html

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/author?name=Oppenheim%2C%20E.%20Phillips

http://www.literature.org/authors/oppenheim-e-phillips/

http://www.blackmask.com/page.php?do=page&cat_id=81


Helen MacInnes (1907-1985)

http://web.utk.edu/~warren01/german.html

http://www.xs4all.nl/~embden11/Engels/macinnes.htm


Geoffrey Household (1900-1988)

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/house.htm

http://www.kaliber38.de/woertche/coc1293.htm

http://www.kaliber38.de/woertche/coc0299.htm

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Geoffrey_Household.htm


"my hometown library"

http://www.nassaulibrary.org/oysterbay/


"lurking, spying, false identities, psychological
games"

http://www.suntimes.co.za/1998/06/07/lifestyle/life01.htm

__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site
http://webhosting.yahoo.com