First edition of Alfred Hitchcock's Sinister Spies: Stories of espionage and daring intrigue for young people.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock. Illustrated by Paul Spina. 1966, first edition. Random House, Inc., publishers.
"Ssssh! Don't look now, but you're being spied on. You don't know it, but you are. Who's doing it? It's not a who, it's a what. See that big black eye in the corner staring at you? See how it seems to watch your movements without ever blinking, no matter where you are in the room? That's what's spying on you."
Of course, Hitchcock was talking about your television, though in 1966 he was talking about a black & white or early color TV, not the SMART TV in your living room that may actually be spying on you.
Hitchcock collected eleven spy stories for young readers by some of the most distinguished authors.
CONTENTS
The Strange Drug of Dr. Caber by Lord Dunsany
The Arm of the Shadows by Eric Ambler
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Somewhere in France" by Richard Harding Davis
The Traitor by W. Somerset Maugham
Code No. 2 by Edgar Wallace
The Problem Solver and the Spy by Christopher Anvil
The Uninvited by Michael Gilbert
QL696.C9 by Anthony Boucher
Legacy of Danger by Patricia McGerr
Citizen in Space by Robert Sheckley
The Charmed Bookshop also carries Alfred Hitchcock's Solve-Them-Yourself Mysteries and Monster Museum.
Learn more about "The Master of Suspense".
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Artist Paul Spina (1937 - 2017) was a native of Brooklyn, an illustrator for The New York Times, New York Magazine, and other publications, and an early "settler" of the SoHo creative community. Spina's dark, shadowy illustrations for this book stir a sixth sense of eyes on your back.
Condition*: Near Fine/Very Good. The dust jacket is chipped along the edges, with a small open tear on the back top right corner, and toned on the inside, as shown in photos. The illustrated cover boards have only one small bump on the bottom right corner.
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