Modern Literature

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  • From the Preface by Alfred W. Pollard:  There is much repetition in the Morte d'Arthur as Malory left it. How often Sir Breuse sans Pitie played his ugly tricks, or Tristram rescued Palomides, or minor knights met at adventure and emulated their betters, it is not easy to count. I have tried to clear away some of the underwoods that the great trees may be better seen, and though I know that I have cleared away some small timber that is fine stuff in itself, if the great trees stand out the better, the experiment may be forgiven. In attempting it I have introduced, I think, not more than a hundred words of my own, but in certain places I have taken over the readings devised half a century ago for the well-known Globe edition by Sir Edward Strachey, which has justified itself by passing through some twenty editions, and has probably brought Malory more readers than all other texts put together.  With colour and black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
  • Book II of Clarenceux; the sequel to Sacred Treason. 1564:  Catholic herald William Harley is the custodian of a highly dangerous document.  When it is stolen he immediately suspects a group of Catholic sympathisers.  But Queen Elizabeth's ruthless enforcers are convinced Harley is using the document to start a Catholic revolution in the name of Mary, Queen of Scots.  Very soon Harley is on the run, with charismatic outlaw Raw Carew, as England teeters on the edge of bloody conflict.
  • July 1945.  For Germany the war is over.  But in POW Camp 8 on the outskirts of Garmisch, one man refuses to believe that his duty to the Fatherland is over.  Erich Seyss, once one of Germany's greatest Olympic sprinters, now awaits trial for war crimes committed as a fanatical officer in the SS.  But he has no intention of facing his accusers.  He is determined to run last one race for Germany.  Devlin Judge, an International Military Tribunal lawyer, is given seven days to track Seyss down.  An almost impossible task.  Not only must he outwit an elite killer trained to operate behind enemy lines, but he must also discover the extraordinary conspiracy to which Seyss is the key.
  • In April, 1945, the Allied Forces came upon the first concentration camps.  The pitiful survivors of the millions who had passed through those gates staggered out to greet their saviours.  The released victims of Nazi terror took some time to readjust to freedom and they were known as Displaced Persons.  This is the story of a group of survivors who set out to find  their dignity, a home and  a homeland.  Much of this story is based on fact.
  • A full length Saint novel. Amos Klein's thrillers were such hot property that his publisher kept his whereabouts a secret. Someone desperately wanted to find him, for reasons more fantastic than even the author  could have devised - perhaps to prove that truth is just as strange as fiction.  But you don't knock The Saint on the head and expect him to forget it - nor do you improve your chances of success by mistaking Simon Templar for Amos Klein.

  • When the Saint and Patricia Holm stumble upon a government test of a weapon of mass destruction, they realise they've seen something that must be kept away from the wrong hands. But the Saint's nemesis Rayt Marius is already nearby and there is only one way to stop Marius from using the weapon to start a war - by kidnapping the scientist who built it.

  • The Saint is trotting across the globe from Cannes to Florida and all points in between in these seven shorts: The Better Mousetrap; The Ugly Impresario; The Prodigal Miser; The Fast Women; The Jolly Undertaker; The Russian Prisoner; The Hopeless Heiress.
  • In which Simon Templar joins Scotland Yard's Special Branch to the surprise and consternation of Chief Inspector Teal, and confronts beautiful Jill Trelawny, leader of the London underworld.Templar discovers the reasons for Jill Trelawny's criminal activities; and then the hunt is on for two men who have played a large and sinister role in the lives of Jill and her father.
  • A peaceful moonlight drive in the English countryside is interrupted when Simon Templar and Patricia Holm listen to a disturbing radio broadcast from France by a would-be dictator who plans to make France the latest in a growing number of European dictatorships under a ruling party called the Sons of France. This broadcast disturbs Patricia, and Templar makes a dire prediction that the future of Europe will be one of invasions and concentration camps. The two adventurers are interrupted in their worries when they spot a house on fire in the distance. Rushing to help, Templar enters the burning building but is unable to rescue a man trapped inside. Later, he and Patricia learn that one of the occupants of the house is a known war profiteer who is expected to make millions off both sides should a new European war erupt.  Considering this book was first published in 1938, the storyline is an uncanny prediction of what was to come.