Tuesday, December 8, 2015

The House of the Seven Flies by Victor Canning (Hodder and Stoughton, 1958)

Another book from the Lifeline Bookfair:


A sunken launch.  It couldn't be much more than a couple of fathoms near the island ... one could dive without any elaborate outfit ... a steel deed-box, small enough to lift.  It sounded too easy ... Perhaps it was.
 (Page 111)
World War II and its aftermath inspired a whole generation of thrillers.  This one sees a gaggle of rival crooks searching the Netherlands for lost Nazi loot.  The good guys (such as the are) eventually wind up with it, but not without a lot of plot twists and turns along the way.

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