I read Queen's Pawn many years ago and another 2 or 3. It is
a caper
novel, with some interesting twists. It is a pity that he
seems to be
out of print.
Enrique Bird
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Holden
[SMTP:s.holden@lcpdt.linst.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, October 02, 1998 11:32 AM
> To: rara-avis
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Victor Canning
>
> If no-one's read any novels by the English author,
Victor Canning, I'd
> recommend him. I doubt much of his stuff is in print
now, but his
> books
> are very easy to pick up second-hand. He wrote 4
novels about a PI
> called Rex Carver who, although based in London,
tends to travel
> abroad
> with his cases. The 4 are 'Doubled in Diamonds', 'The
Melting Man',
> 'The Python Project' and 'The Whip Hand.'
>
> Other good novels are 'The Limbo Line', 'Venetian
Bird', 'A Delivery
> of
> Furies', 'The Scorpio Letters' and 'The Rainbird
Pattern.'
> Hitchcock's
> last film, 'Family Plot', was taken from one of his
novels (it may
> have
> been 'The Rainbird Pattern.')
>
> Has anyone else read anything by him?
>
> -Stephen-
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