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The Spy in Black spy thriller novel by the British writer J. Storer Clouston .[1] Scapa Flow in Orkney during the First World War . It was one of several thrillers he wrote along with The Man from the Clouds Beastmark the Spy [2]
Synopsis [ edit ]
German U-boat officer Lieutenant Conrad Von Belke travels to Scotland as part of a plot to gain intelligence for an attack on the Royal Navy fleet as it leaves its anchor. He encounters a local minister and a British naval officer prepared to betray his country. Too late, Von Belke realises he has been part of an elaborate British deception operation to lure U-boats out to sink them.
Film adaptation [ edit ]
In 1939 it was made into the British film of the same title directed by Michael Powell and starring Conrad Veidt , Valerie Hobson and Sebastian Shaw .[3] [4]
References [ edit ]
^ Burton Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction . p.377
^ Goble p.87
^ Burton p.217
Bibliography [ edit ]
Burton, Alan. Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction . Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
Burton, Alan. Looking-Glass Wars: Spies on British Screens since 1960 . Vernon Press, 2018.
Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film . Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
Royle, Trevor. Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature . Macmillan, 1984.
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