North from Rome - Hardcover

MacInnes, Helen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151670013 ISBN 13: 9780151670017

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1958

Synopsis

A young American caught in a hazardous game of international intrigue, centering upon a narcotics ring, in contemporary Italy.

About this title

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1958
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151670013
• ISBN 13: 9780151670017
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 307