RARA-AVIS: Ashenden

From: Juri Nummelin ( juri.nummelin@pp.inet.fi)
Date: 02 Mar 2005


Maugham's "Ashenden" is a great novel of espionage. Not hardboiled, but noir - certainly a worthy precedent. Conrad's
"Secret Agent" is also very good and Paul Duncan makes in his
"Noir Fiction" quite clear that Conrad was noir.

Juri

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