d4doomeOct 4, 2024

Castle Minerva, a 1955 psychological spy novel by Victor Canning. A British ex-spy has to babysit a prince. Lots of moral murkiness. Bad guys doing things for comprehensible motives. Gritty realism in the Graham Greene-Eric Ambler style.Superb.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/10/victor-cannings-castle-minerva.html

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Victor Canning's Castle Minerva

Victor Canning (1911-1986) was an English writer whose first novel was published in 1934, his last in 1985. He wrote historical fiction, chi...

Louis GilbertDec 12, 2023
12th and final book in my challenge to read 1 book a month that inspired a #Hitchcock film. #TheRainbirdPattern (filmed as #FamilyPlot) by #VictorCanning is an oddball thriller. A pair of detectives and a clairvoyant and her amateur sleuth partner are searching for the same man, but for different reasons. There are some mildly amusing moments and a number of surprising twists along the way as the stories converge. A fun (but not brilliant) end to my challenge by an author I was unfamiliar with.