After Midnight (Albrand novel)
Appearance
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Author | Martha Albrand |
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Language | English |
Genre | Thriller |
Publisher | Random House (New York) Chatto and Windus (London) |
Publication date | 1948 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type |
After Midnight is a 1948 thriller novel by the German writer Martha Albrand, who had been living in the United States since 1937.[1] It was initially serialized in a slightly different version under the title Dishonored in The Saturday Evening Post.[2]
Synopsis
[edit]During World War II American OSS operative Webster Carr was betrayed to the Germans on a small Italian island. After the war he returns again to uncover who it was who gave him away. Author, Martha Albrand ; Edition, reprint ; Publisher, Random House, 1948 ; Original from, the University of Michigan ; Digitized, May 18, 2007.
Film adaptation
[edit]In 1950 it was adapted into the Hollywood film Captain Carey, U.S.A. directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Alan Ladd, Wanda Hendrix and Francis Lederer.
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Deutsch, James I. Coming Home from "The Good War": World War II Veterans as Depicted in American Film and Fiction. George Washington University, 1991.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.