The Spy's Bedside Book

On its first appearance in 1957, Hugh and Graham Greene's "The Spy's Bedside Book" provoked a storm of interest, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, 100 copies were bought by East German Intelligence. This classic anthology, with a new introduction by the former head of MI5, Stella Rimington, includes stories by some of the great writers on spying and many practitioners, including Ian Fleming and John Buchan, Sir Robert Baden-Powell and Belle Boyd, Walter Schellenberg, Sir Paul Dukes and Vladimir Petrov, and from the golden age of mystery and suspense, William Le Queux and E. Phillips Oppenheim.There are also some unexpected figures: William Blake, D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Mann, all suspected of spying in three great wars. How can you hide messages in a boiled egg? Why should you always put pepper in your vodka when in Russia? Answers to these questions and much more can be found in this thrilling collection, which will enthral readers once again with its tales of espionage from a bygone era.

ISBN 0091920612   Pages 272 ISBN13 9780091920616 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 394 Publisher Cornerstone   Published in London Imprint Hutchinson   Height (mm) 223 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 142 Publication date 04 Oct 2007   Spine width (mm) 24 DEWEY 327.12   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

		Introduction by Stella Rimington
		Introduction to the First Edition by Graham Greene		1
		For Beginners
		A Mission Is Proposed by John Buchan		7
		Directive to Colonel Zabotin		17
		A Damned Good Story by W. Somerset Maugham		18
		A Late Call at the German Embassy by L. C. Moyzisch		20
		The Value of Hide-and-seek by Robert Baden-Powell		23
		Take a Hard-boiled Egg by Bernard Newman		24
		Example of Invisible Writing		25
		Hazards of the Profession
		Tricked by William Le Queux		29
		A Whip of the Circassian Sort by T. E. Lawrence		29
		A Nasty Scratch by William Le Queux		30
		A Spy Advertises by Herbert Greene		31
		A Bathroom at the Paris Ritz by Dennis Wheatley		32
		A Trussed Fowl by William Le Queux		33
		In the Back of the Head by Vladimir Petrov		34
		A Little Black Beret by Peter Fleming		36
		At the Social Club by George Griffith		37
		"That indeed is to die" by Fenimore Cooper		41
		Seduced with the Old Tricks by W. H. Auden		43
		An Excellent Babadagly by William Le Queux		44
		I Spy by Graham Greene		45
		A Segment of German Sausage by Peter Fleming		48
		The Sad Fate of Major Andre by Richard Garnett and Anna Seward		51
		The Police Spy by Joseph Conrad		55
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"I fear England will be infested with alien agents who have learned their trade from this revealing and mischievous compilation."-"The Evening News"

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