Above Suspicion (Paperback)

from FerneMysteryReader

The summer of 1939. Richard Myles, Oxford don, and his wife Frances receive a visit from Peter Galt. Peter, a friend that works in the Foreign Office, has returned from Bucharest and needs to lie low. He has a special request for them to determine if a fellow compatriot is present at his assigned...

from VintageReader

After a spate of reading historical novels set in World War II, it was interesting to read a novel that was contemporary to that period. I've read a lot of Helen MacInnes, but had never read this one. I appreciated the modern edition from Titan, but did spot quite a few scanning/OCR errors. This ...

from picardyrose

Married couple at Oxford is sent to France to find out what happened to an MI6 operative (well, that's not what they were called, but you know what I mean). All they have to do is follow a series of clues from person to person while looking like tourists and avoiding the notice of the Nazis. Good...

from MEENIEREADS

Prehaps when this book was first published its genre was all new. That would explain all the extra printings in 1941. As a child of the 2nd half of the 20th century who has read many,many thrillers and spy novels over the years this one seemed very hard to follow! I could never get the real sense...

from Eyejaybee

I am always intrigued to see how literary tastes develop and change. 'Above Suspicion', published in 1941 and set in the summer of 1939 in the final few months before the outbreak of the Second World War, was Helen MacInnes's first novel. It was very well received, spawning a film starring Joan C...