Above Suspicion - Helen MacInnes

Above Suspicion

By Helen MacInnes

  • Release Date: 2013-01-08
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 46 Ratings

Description

Two married academics are recruited to search for a missing spy in this bestselling espionage thriller that takes readers into the heart of Nazi Germany just before World War II
 
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. But in the heightened atmosphere of pre-war Europe, nobody is above suspicion. In fact, it seems the husband and wife are being carefully monitored by shadowy figures . . .

Above Suspicion was MacInnes’ breakthrough book, a bestseller published in 1941 and released as a movie in 1943, directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray.

“Hide and seek with death—in the shadow of terror . . . The hallmarks of a MacInnes novel of suspense are as individual and as clearly stamped as a Hitchcock thriller.” The New York Times

Reviews

  • Great Book

    5
    By Ccdoodlebug
    I read this book years ago. I had forgotten how much I had enjoyed it the first time I read it. Suspense and action. It kept my attention to the end. Clean book with no sex or curse words. What change from "modern" books. I am looking forward to re-reading this authors books.