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Above Suspicion
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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Summary
Richard and Frances Myles are preparing for their annual European summer vacation in 1939 when they are visited at their Oxford college by old friend Peter Galt, who has a seemingly simple job for them. But in the heightened atmosphere of prewar Europe, nobody is above suspicion. In fact, the husband and wife are being carefully monitored by shadowy figures.
Above Suspicion was MacInnes’ breakthrough book, a best seller published in 1941 and released as a movie in 1943, directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray.
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- Jane Shepherd
- 28-01-22
Dated but a good story
I agree with the previous reviewer but, having come out of the womb in 1947 as a fully fledged womens libber pre the 1960s, I wanted to shake the female protagonist whenever she played the little woman. The narration wasn’t bad apart from mispronouncing Magdalen College and it suited the the novel. I read most if not all of Helen MacInnes’s books in the 1960s and was pleased they had been reissued in audiobook form. Sadly, like Mary Stewart’s novels, they are dated and tend to make one wince on occasion but it’s good to travel back in time and as R Griffiths wrote it makes a refreshing change to be spared a lot of bad language and cringeworthy violence.
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- R Griffiths
- 27-01-22
Great story - an old favourite returns!
I love Helen Macinnes books and it's great to see Audible releasing several of them this year. Her style of writing may be a little old fashioned now but the stories are great and full of intrigue but mercifully without the gory detail so common in modern thrillers.
Here a young couple are drawn into espionage just as World War 11 is starting and Macinnes paints a chilling picture of France, Germany and Austria as they follow a chain of clues to find a missing agent.
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- Brian F.
- 05-07-22
A disappointment after Assignment in Brittany
Some words come to mind: naive, innocent, wordy, sentimental. A bit too Left Book Clubbish as well: Germans are mainly evil Teutons and square heads. The Oxbridge types are brave, principled and true (huzzah, huzzah!). It’s as if P G Wodehouse had been asked to write a serious thriller- it doesn’t really work. But then if Wodehouse had written it, he would have made Honoria Glossop the main protagonist and she would have sorted things out in the first 50 pages…
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