1928 novel
The Crouching Beast is a 1928 spy thriller novel by the British author Valentine Williams.[1] It is part of his series of novels and short stories featuring the character of "Clubfoot", the alias of Doctor Adolph Grunt a brilliant but sinister German secret service mastermind.[2] It is set in Constantinople, capital of the Ottoman Empire, during the First World War.
Film adaptation
In 1935 it was adapted into a British film of the same title directed by Victor Hanbury and starring Fritz Kortner, Wynne Gibson and Andrews Engelmann.[3]
References
- ^ Reilly p.1495
- ^ Burton p.420
- ^ Goble p.503
Bibliography
- Burton, Alan. Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
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