Victor Canning

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가족 음모
Novel
영화는 두 쌍의 사기꾼의 이야기가 평행하게 펼쳐지다가 후반부에 하나로 얽히는 방식으로 전개된다. 블랑슈(바바라 해리스)는 그의 정부이며 택시 운전사인 럼리(브루스 던)가 수집한 정보를 토대로 용한 점쟁이 행세를 하는 사기꾼이다. 한편, 보석상인 애덤슨과 그의 정부 프랜(캐런 블랙)은 요인을 납치하여 몸값으로 다이아몬드를 요구하는 범죄를 일삼는다. 사건은 갑부인 레인버드 부인이 재산을 물려줄 핏줄이 없어 40년 전 그녀의 집안에 양자로 들어온 동생의 사생아를 찾아나서면서 시작된다. 레인버드 부인의 의뢰를 받은 블랑슈는 럼리의 도움으로 사생아를 찾아내는데, 그는 바로 보석상인 윌리엄이었다. 레인버드 부인의 재산을 가로채기 위해 두 쌍의 사기꾼이 충돌하고, 결국 공동묘지에서 맞부딪쳐 브레이크가 고장난 차를 타고 구불구불한 산길을 내려가는 위기에 처한다.
The Runaways
Novel
A story about a teenage boy who runs away from his foster home after wrongly being accused of theft and soon crosses paths with a young leopard which has escaped from a wild-animal compound during a lightning storm.
샤크!
Novel
A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
The Limbo Line
Novel
The Limbo Line tells a story of Cold War double-crossing with British secret agent Manston trying to break up a group of Russian agents who return defectors to Moscow for brainwashing. When a Russian ballerina defects to Germany, Manston goes after the head of The Limbo Line in an effort to stop the group from kidnapping the defectors. Acting against the orders of his boss, Manston is faced with killing the communist leader of the movement in Germany or allowing the dancer to be turned over for interrogation and reprisals for her political beliefs. Matters are further complicated when Manston finds himself falling for the ballerina…
The Limbo Line
Writer
The Limbo Line tells a story of Cold War double-crossing with British secret agent Manston trying to break up a group of Russian agents who return defectors to Moscow for brainwashing. When a Russian ballerina defects to Germany, Manston goes after the head of The Limbo Line in an effort to stop the group from kidnapping the defectors. Acting against the orders of his boss, Manston is faced with killing the communist leader of the movement in Germany or allowing the dancer to be turned over for interrogation and reprisals for her political beliefs. Matters are further complicated when Manston finds himself falling for the ballerina…
The Scorpio Letters
Novel
A spy thriller involving an American who is enlisted by British intelligence to replace one of its recently murdered agents and smash a ring of blackmailers -- James Bond style -- headed by a nefarious figure known as Scorpio.
Masquerade
Novel
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
The House of the Seven Hawks
Novel
A ship's captain gets mixed up with murder during the hunt for lost Nazi treasure.
Venetian Bird
Screenplay
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.
Venetian Bird
Novel
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.
Spy Hunt
Story
Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden a microfilm in the collar of one of the animals. But when the train is derailed in the Swiss Alps and the panthers escape, she is forced to involve him in her mission, which now includes enemy agents hunting the microfilm, the animals, Catherine and Roger. Corrected from an original submission by Guy Bellinger.
Golden Salamander
Novel
An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.
Golden Salamander
Writer
An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.