>From: "Rene Ribic" <
rribic@optusnet.com.au>
>Somehow, I've never been able to get into
>him (Maugham), except for one short story whose title
escapes me, about
>knocking
>off some German spy in the Swiss Alps, of which I've
also seen a British
>film from the 1930's (?).
I can't remember the title, but this was one of his stories
about Ashenden
(from the antho. of the same name), a British spy during the
first world war. I understand that Maugham himself was a spy,
and that the stories are more or less autobiographical. I've
read several and they're all pretty good.
Graham
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