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Victor Canning (1911–1986)

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Werken van Victor Canning

De weglopers (1971) 128 exemplaren
The Crimson Chalice (1976) 107 exemplaren
De zweep erover (1965) 81 exemplaren
Mr Finchley Discovers His England (1934) 74 exemplaren
Het Rainbird complot (1972) 69 exemplaren
De vlucht van de grauwe gans (1967) 52 exemplaren
Project Python (1967) 47 exemplaren
Als je maar een kans krijgt (1974) 44 exemplaren
Queen's Pawn (1969) 43 exemplaren
The House of the Seven Flies (1952) 32 exemplaren
Venetian Bird (1951) 32 exemplaren
De smeltende man (1968) 31 exemplaren
De dodelijke herinnering (1974) 28 exemplaren
Everyman's England (2005) 28 exemplaren
Panther's Moon (1950) 27 exemplaren
Etappe Limbo (1963) 27 exemplaren
The Finger of Saturn (1973) 26 exemplaren
Firecrest (1728) 26 exemplaren
Het teken van de Kingsfords (1975) 23 exemplaren
The Scorpio Letters (1966) 22 exemplaren
The Doomsday Carrier (1976) 22 exemplaren
Duivels doolhof (1979) 22 exemplaren
Castle Minerva (1955) 22 exemplaren
The Crimson Chalice Trilogy (1980) 21 exemplaren
Opium voor diamanten (1966) 21 exemplaren
The Golden Salamander (1948) 21 exemplaren
Fall from Grace (1973) 19 exemplaren
Circle of the Gods (1977) 18 exemplaren
Mr. Finchley goes to Paris (2009) 18 exemplaren
Mr. Finchley Takes the Road (1971) 17 exemplaren
Vogelkooi (1978) 17 exemplaren
The Chasm (1947) 16 exemplaren
Vanishing Point (1982) 16 exemplaren
The Burning Eye (1960) 14 exemplaren
A Delivery of Furies (1964) 14 exemplaren
The Great Affair (1970) 13 exemplaren
Black Flamingo (1965) 12 exemplaren
The Immortal Wound (1978) 12 exemplaren
A Forest of Eyes (1951) 10 exemplaren
Raven's Wind (1983) 9 exemplaren
The Boy on Platform One (1981) 7 exemplaren
De drakenbloedboom (1959) 7 exemplaren
The Manasco Road (1957) 7 exemplaren
Fly away Paul (2012) 7 exemplaren
Birds of a Feather (1985) 6 exemplaren
The Hidden Face (1956) 6 exemplaren
Castle Minerva, The Hidden Face (1957) 4 exemplaren
Polycarp's Progress (1935) 4 exemplaren
The Minerva Club (2020) 4 exemplaren
Green Battlefield (1943) 4 exemplaren
Mr. Finchley's Holiday (1935) 3 exemplaren
Table Number Seven (1987) 3 exemplaren
Twist of the Knife (1955) 3 exemplaren
Smiler (1975) 2 exemplaren
The Shark Run (1968) 2 exemplaren
Le Pion de la reine 1 exemplaar
Cresta roja 1 exemplaar
El alud 1 exemplaar
Dyrköpt liv 1 exemplaar
Matthew Silverman (2012) 1 exemplaar
Drepende indisier 1 exemplaar
Tulikera : [romaan] 1 exemplaar
Stories of Crime and Detection (2015) 1 exemplaar
Comedies and Whimsies (2007) 1 exemplaar

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Set aside a day for this delightful, PG English adventure that was first published in 1934 in which 45-year-old bachelor Edgar Finchley, Esq, having worked at Bardwell & Sprake for 28 years, takes his first-ever holiday. I received a review copy quite a while back from NetGalley that got lost in the queue and this is my voluntary review.
 
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Quakerwidow | 9 andere besprekingen | May 27, 2023 |
Story of a meek and mild law clerk who takes a mandated vacation that turns into a life of crime, albeit unwittingly. 214 pages
 
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Tess_W | 9 andere besprekingen | May 21, 2023 |
An odd book, made up of one madcap adventure after another. Highly episodic. The characters mostly feel like caricatures, except Mr Finchley himself has a bit more realness to him. Although he is *just* naive enough to keep landing in some bizarre situations, he's intelligent enough to deal with them.

This is a book you have to be in the right mood for. It's not quite my cup of tea, but you might enjoy it if you like the sounds of a book that's somewhere in the ballpark of PG Wodehouse but with occasional forays into more profound thought.… (meer)
 
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Alishadt | 9 andere besprekingen | Feb 25, 2023 |
I have not been reading as much this month as compared to recently, or more accurately, I have not been finishing as many books as usual.

Various irrelevant reasons...but of those I have not yet finished, none of them fall into the (rare) category of books that I do not want to finish. So that might mean there is a (on first blush) an unrealistic number of books listed for future months, but if one remembers that they relate to books finished in that month. hopefully explains that if in fact it occurs.

But as to this book.

I came across Victor Canning , the author, in some recent wider reading and I was very pleased to be able to pick up a couple of examples at one of my favourite second hand bookshops in Brisbane, which included this book which is said to be the first in the 4 book series featuring a private detective, Rex Carver.

It was first published in the mid 1960s. Unsurprisingly, it being a mystery/thriller, it involves international (European focussed) intrigue, with many different government organisations being very interested in the activities of Rex Carver, a London based private investigator, who finds himself involved in something larger than life.

It includes some of the 1960s tropes of agents falling for those they are following etc, but is not at all racing by current standards.

I would compare it to the Buchan books from an earlier period, and suggest they are a 1960s version of the same. And in saying that, I enjoyed the many Buchan novels. Even if neither would be held out by many as being high literature (but I dont always want that!)

There is a nice depiction of Carver's (professional) relationship with his PA, Wilkins; a realistic depiction of travel across Europe in the 1960s; a somewhat outlandisdish plot underpinning the whole book, but not ridiculous (if one can accept the plot behind that of The Day of the Jackal or The Eagle has Landed).

Perhaps a little dated, but I will look for the follow up novels.

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78
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1,398
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