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.
black, novel, black, 1917, thriller, novel, british, writer, storer, clouston, takes, place, near, scapa, flow, orkneys, during, first, world, several, thrillers, wrote, along, with, from, clouds, beastmark, blackamerican, first, editionauthorj, storer, cloust. The Spy in Black is a 1917 spy thriller novel by the British writer J Storer Clouston 1 It takes place near Scapa Flow in the Orkneys during the First World War It was one of several thrillers he wrote along with The Man from the Clouds and Beastmark the Spy 2 The Spy in BlackAmerican first editionAuthorJ Storer CloustonCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglishGenreSpy thrillerPublisherWilliam Blackwood and Sons UK George H Doran US Publication date1917Media typePrint Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Film adaptation 3 References 4 BibliographySynopsis editGerman 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 editIn 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 Royle p 68 Burton Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction p 377 Goble p 87 Burton p 217Bibliography editBurton Alan Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction Rowman amp 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 nbsp This article about a spy novel of the 1910s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it See guidelines for writing about novels Further suggestions might be found on the article s talk page vte nbsp This article about a war novel of the 1910s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it See guidelines for writing about novels Further suggestions might be found on the article s talk page vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title The Spy in Black novel amp oldid 1111912645, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
