Above Suspicion, Helen MacInnes
Above Suspicion, Helen MacInnes
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Above Suspicion

Author: Helen MacInnes

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 10 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/12/2022

Synopsis

Richard and Frances Myles are preparing for their annual European summer vacation in 1939 when they are visited at their Oxford college by old friend Peter Galt, who has a seemingly simple job for them. But in the heightened atmosphere of prewar Europe, nobody is above suspicion, in fact the husband and wife are being carefully monitored by shadowy figures.Above Suspicion was MacInnes’s breakthrough book, a bestseller published in 1941 and released as a movie in 1943, directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray.

About Helen MacInnes

Helen MacInnes (1907–1985) was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels. Dubbed “the queen of spy writers,” her books have sold more than twenty-five million copies in the United States alone and have been translated into over twenty-two languages. Several of her books have been adapted into films, such as Above Suspicion (1943), with Joan Crawford, and The Salzburg Connection (1972).

About Kate Reading

Kate Reading, named an AudioFile Golden Voice, has recorded hundreds of audiobooks across many genres, over a thirty–year plus career and won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. Among other awards, she has been recognized as an AudioFile Magazine Voice of the Century, Narrator of the Year, Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy, and winner of an Publisher’s Weekly’s Listen-Up Award. She records at her home studio, Madison Productions, Inc., in Maryland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽

I've seen Helen MacInnes vintage thrillers on library and used bookstore shelves many times over the years, but never bothered picking one up and reading it until now. I should have given her a chance earlier; this was pretty compelling reading. Above Suspicion, published in 1941 and set in 1939, on......more

Goodreads review by Abigail

Time was, I was an avid reader of Helen MacInnes’s spy thrillers. I loved the moral certainties; the clever, adaptive heroes and heroines who always had an unexpected work-around for every danger; the nobility and the endurance and the happy endings. Having not read MacInnes for at least three decade......more

Goodreads review by Elinor

This 1941 mystery by "the queen of the spy novels" is a period piece in every way -- the characters, clothing, setting, social customs, etc. (For example, the two main characters do a lot of mountain climbing, while pausing frequently for cigarette breaks.) A young English couple from Oxford are ask......more

Quotes

“[A] hotfooted story of adventure, constant danger, and very superior suspense…a skilled and breathless tale of the hunt and the hunted, with the story of a young married couple’s anonymous excursion into Germany, France, and Austria on the heels of the Gestapo…Richard and Frances are gay and gallant company, and this is nonstop reading.” Kirkus Reviews

“Starts casually in Oxford, becomes intriguing in Germany, and highly exciting in Austria, Tyrol, and Italy…Notably well written.” Daily Telegraph (London)

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