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CIS: The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers revisited

By spriteby

28 September, 2016

Although it wasn’t the first story ever written about spies, The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service by Erskine Childers can be described as the blueprint for subsequent writers in the genre including John Buchan, William Tufnell Le Queux and Somerset Maugham, all of whom…

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CIS: 10 literary classics that are also crime stories

By MarinaSofia

27 September, 2016

Here at Crime Fiction Lover we don’t care about genre labels as long as a book is well-written, suspenseful and contains a few dead bodies. Other readers seem to feel the same way and crime fiction still sells by the bucketload. Recent reports suggest that His Bloody…

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The Other Side of Silence by Philip Kerr

By DavidPrestidge

8 April, 2016

Ex-cop Bernie Gunther feels life has come full circle. In his younger days, between spells with Berlin’s Kriminalpolizei, he was the house detective for the city’s celebrated Adlon Hotel. Then came World War II and Gunther’s nimble foxtrot around Nazi Germany where he worked for the likes…

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CIS: The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers revisited

CIS: 10 literary classics that are also crime stories

The Other Side of Silence by Philip Kerr

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