ABSTRACT

This book won the Canadian Crime Writers' Arthur Ellis Award for the Best Genre Criticism/Reference book of 1991. This collection of essays is an attempt to explore the history of spy fiction and spy films and investigate the significance of the ideas they contain. The volume offers new insights into the development and symbolism of British spy fiction.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

Fictions of History

chapter |13 pages

Secret Negotiations

The Spy Figure in Nineteenth-century American Popular Fiction

chapter |25 pages

Decoding German Spies

British Spy Fiction 1908–18

chapter |19 pages

Our Man in Havana, Their Man in Madrid

Literary Invention in Espionage Fact and Fiction