Victor Canning Books

Slight smudge on front cover. Signature on first page. Text is perfect.

An Elementary Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles and divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner (600); Elementary (1100); Intermediate (1600); and Upper (2200). Some of the titles are also available on cassette.

This is a split-level story with two people kidnapping prominent officials, while at the same time, an elderly woman is trying to bring the missing elements of her family together before she dies. There seems no connection, but, as a lovable and charismatic psychic and her jack-of-all-trades partner seek the whereabouts of a man who disappeared years ago, the suspense mounts and culminates in violence, with the author delivering an unexpected aftershock in the final pages.

Classics. Detective and mystery stories. Latest range of classic crime novels from the 20th century, published with stylish retro cover artwork.

Laconic private eye Rex Canning has accepted the apparently straightforward job of tracing a young German au pair. Never one to avoid trouble, Carver becomes entangled in a dangerous game of international espionage and double dealing.

The novel is narrated in the first person (unusual for Canning) by Robert Rolt, a landowner who has had a brief career in the Foreign Office but now runs the Dorset estates he has inherited from an older brother. Two years before the book begins his wife Sarah vanished. A man from a secret branch of the Foreign Office comes to him with surveillance film of a woman called Angela Starr who resembles his wife. Rolt is immediately sure it is her. He meets her. She tells him she is an amnesia victim with no memory going back more than a year, but agrees on seeing photographs and handwriting samples that she must be Sarah Rolt. She returns to live with him. They visit Sarah's mother in Italy. There is a mysterious incident in which a speedboat may have been trying to kill them while they are swimming. Meanwhile the secret services are trying to get Rolt to help them investigate International Industrial Systems Limited, a firm in which Sarah's mother has a large investment. And Sarah still has no recollection of her missing year. The final explanations involves an element of science fiction, the only time that Canning drifted into this genre. It also maintains the thread, started in The Python Project and culminating in Birdcage, of the essential nastiness of the British secret services.

'I want you to do a job for me during the Easter vacation. Not such a colourful job, though it may have its excitements. But it's a job that means a hell of a lot to me.' Drexel wanted me and that was enough. I said, 'I'll do it.' And so David Fraser is lured back into the world of espionage where men, lives and morals are sacrificed without a qualm. His errand turns from the commonplace into a nightmare as a sinister power-struggle for control of Arab oil corrupts even the incorruptible. 'Victor Canning is one of the world's finest story-tellers' Good Housekeeping 'Right at the top of the thriller-writing tree... Castle Minerva not only brilliantly entertains; it satisfies.' The Sunday Times

Die Handlung dreht sich um Charlie, einen Labor-Schimpansen, der während der Inkubation eines verheerenden Pestbazillus aus der biologischen Forschungsstation des Verteidigungsministeriums entkommt. Nun im idyllischen Wessex angekommen, wird eine umfassende – wenn auch entschieden diskrete – Suche eingeleitet, bevor eine tödliche Zeitbombe unter der ahnungslosen Bevölkerung explodiert. Eine wunderbar skurrile Antikriegs- und Antiregierungsansicht, nicht Orwell, aber dennoch unterhaltsam.

Sommerwind und erste Liebe - bk626; Bastei Lübbe; Victor Canning; pocket_book; 1975

Der verlorene Freitag - bk609; Bastei Lübbe; Victor Canning; pocket_book; 1976

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Der Raub der Furien. ( Tb) - bk82; Goldmann Wilhelm Gmbh; Canning, Victor; pocket_book; 1982