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The Labyrinth Makers
By (Author) Anthony Price
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
10th September 2024
6th June 2024
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Espionage and spy thriller
Narrative theme: Politics
Paperback
240
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 8mm
180g
A crashed plane becomes a case for a civil servant turned detective, in a classic Cold War thriller A missing plane resurfaces - and so do long-submerged secrets... An RAF Dakota, presumed lost at sea during World War Two, has just been discovered at the bottom of a drained lake over twenty years later - complete with the skeletal remains of the pilot and a strange cargo of rubble. Why are the Soviets so interested in it, even attending the dead man's funeral Why has unassuming civil servant David Audley been tasked with leading the investigation - and what was the plane carrying that some will kill for
Anthony Price (1928-2019) was born in Hertfordshire. He had a long career in journalism, beginning as a crime reviewer on the Oxford Mail and ending as editor of the Oxford Times. He won the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger for his first novel The Labyrinth Makers, and the Gold Dagger for Other Paths to Glory, which was later shortlisted for the Dagger of Daggers Award for the best crime novel of the last 50 years. Both feature as their hero Dr David Audley, historian and spy.