Is this the best opening to an espionage thriller ever?
Mike Pollitt | Thursday 5 May, 2011 14:52
Taken from the review of Spy Counter-spy by Don Betteridge, in the utterly magnificent London Mystery Magazine (Vol 20), from 1954.
“The book opens with a deaf-mute stripping off her clothes to reveal an invisible-ink message inscribed on her back.”
Who has this book? I need it.
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