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The Elephant Never Forgets

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The Elephant Never Forgets
American first edition
AuthorEthel Lina White
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherCollins Crime Club (UK)
Harper Brothers (US)
Publication date
1937
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

The Elephant Never Forgets is a 1937 thriller novel by the British writer Ethel Lina White.[1] [2] It was published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club and in America by Harper Brothers.[3] White was an established mystery writer, whose novel The Wheel Spins was made into the film The Lady Vanishes the following year.

Synopsis

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It portrays a group of foreigners trying to escape from the Soviet Union and the OGPU secret police of the Stalin era.

References

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  1. ^ Reilly p.1473
  2. ^ Turnbull p.179
  3. ^ The New Yorker, Volume 13. F-R Publishing Corporation, 1937. p.68

Bibliography

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  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
  • Turnbull, Malcolm J. Victims Or Villains: Jewish Images in Classic English Detective Fiction. Popular Press, 1998.