I arrived in St Gatien from Nice on Tuesday, the 14th of August. I was arrested at 11:45 am on Thursday, the 16th, by an agent de police and an inspector in plain clothes and taken to the Commissariat. - Epitaph for a Spy
Edwardian spy stories had inoculated their readers with Edwardian cliche. "The black velveted seductress, the British secret service numbskull hero, the omnipotent spymaster," as [Eric] Ambler [,author of Epitaph for a Spy,] put it.... In Epitaph for a Spy, Ambler did away, once and for all, with cloak-and-dagger melodrama in favor of the qualmish chill of realism. - Stephen Metcalf Slate, 25 MAY 2006
Timeline
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938/00/00 | Eric Ambler | Author | "Epitaph for a Spy" is published. |
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| Particulars for Epitaph for a Spy: | |||
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| Narrative Arts | An Everyman Accused | ||
| Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
| Profession | Espionage | the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain information | |
| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Art Type | Novel | long form fiction narrative that is at least 40,000 words in length | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |