The Limbo Line By Victor Canning-Paperback

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  • ENGLISH

    Language
  • 220

    Pages
  • 9780330104234

    ISBN
  • 110 mm

    Width
  • 180 mm

    Height
  • 118 gram

    Weight
  • PAPERBACK

    Binding
  • 1965

    Publish Date
  • 10 mm

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    Canning at his best is very very best and this is. Retired top agrnt coaxed after golfr and so forth to take on destruction of iron curtain kidnapping apparatus trap set bait laid and at first all systems go.

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    Victor Canning

    Victor Canning was a prolific writer of novels and thrillers who flourished in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, but whose reputation has faded since his death in 1986. He was personally reticent, writing no memoirs and giving relatively few newspaper interviews.

    Canning was born in Plymouth, Devon, the eldest child of a coach builder, Fred Canning, and his wife May, née Goold. During World War I his father served as an ambulance driver in France and Flanders, while he with his two sisters went to live in the village of Calstock ten miles north of Plymouth, where his uncle Cecil Goold worked for the railways and later became station master. After the war the family returned to Plymouth. In the mid 1920s they moved to Oxford where his father had found work, and Victor attended the Oxford Central School. Here he was encouraged to stay on at school and go to university by a classical scholar, Dr. Henderson, but the family could not afford it and instead Victor went to work as a clerk in the education office at age 16.

    Within three years he had started selling short stories to boys’ magazines and in 1934, his first novel. Mr. Finchley Discovers his England, was accepted by Hodder and Stoughton and became a runaway best seller. He gave up his job and started writing full time, producing thirteen more novels in the next six years under three different names. Lord Rothermere engaged him to write for the Daily Mail, and a number of his travel articles for the Daily Mail were collected as a book with illustrations by Leslie Stead under the title Everymans England in 1936. He also continued to write short stories.

    He married Phyllis McEwen in 1935, a girl from a theatrical family whom he met while she was working with a touring vaudeville production at Weston-super-Mare. They had three daughters, Lindel born in 1939, Hilary born in 1940, and Virginia who was born in 1942, but died in infancy.
    In 1940 he enlisted in the Army, and was sent for training with the