Decision at Delphi - Hardcover

MacInnes, Helen

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ISBN 10: 0151242216 ISBN 13: 9780151242214

Publisher: Harcourt, 1960

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A suspense novel about a young American on a magazine assignment in Sicily and Greece who becomes involved in a struggle against a monstrous conspiracy.

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About the Author:

Helen Clark MacInnes (October 7, 1907, Glasgow – September 30, 1985, New York City) was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels.

She graduated from the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1928 with a degree in French and German. Working as a librarian, she married the classicist Gilbert Highet in 1932 and moved with her husband to New York in 1937.

Among her works are:

Above Suspicion (1941) made into a film of the same name.
Assignment in Brittany (1942) made into a film of the same name
The Unconquerable (1944), also called While Still We Live
Horizon (1945)
Friends and Lovers (1947)
Rest and Be Thankful (1949)
Neither Five Nor Three (1951)
I and My True Love (1953)
Pray for a Brave Heart (1955)
North from Rome (1958)
Decision at Delphi (1960)
The Venetian Affair (1963), made into a film of the same name
Double Image (1966)
The Salzburg Connection (1968), made into a film of the same name
Message from Malaga (1971)
Snare of the Hunter (1974)
Agent in Place (1976)
Home Is the Hunter (1976)
Prelude to Terror (1978)
The Hidden Target (1980)
Cloak of Darkness (1982)
Ride a Pale Horse (1984)

In 1966 she won the Columba Prize for Literature.

Review:

"Helen MacInnes can hang her cloak and dagger right up there with Eric Ambler and Graham Greene" (Newsweek) "Her best book so far... Helen MacInnes blends travel, suspense and politics in an exceptional thriller" (The Times)"

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