The Spy's Bedside Book - Anthology by Greene, Graham -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction. Stella Rimington Introduction to the First Edition. Graham Greene For Beginners

A Mission Is Proposed. John Buchan Directive to Colonel Zabotin. A Damned Good Story. W. Somerset Maugham A Late Call at the German Embassy. L. C. Moyzisch The Value of Hide-and-seek. Sir Robert Baden-Powell Take a Hard-boiled Egg. Bernard Newman Example of Invisible Writing.

Hazards of the Profession

Tricked. William Le Queux A Whip of the Circassian Sort. T. E. Lawrence A Nasty Scratch. William Le Queux A Spy Advertises. Herbert Greene A Bathroom at the Paris Ritz. Dennis Wheatley A Trussed Fowl. William Le Queux In the Back of the Head. Vladimir Petrov A Little Black Beret. Peter Fleming At the Social Club. George Griffith “That Indeed Is to Die.” Fenimore Cooper Seduced with the Old Tricks. W. H. Auden An Excellent Babadagly. William Le Queux I Spy. Graham Greene A Segment of German Sausage. Peter Fleming The Sad Fate of Major André. Richard Garnett and Anna Seward The Police Spy. Joseph Conrad Seven Miles from Calais. Max Pemberton A Twinge. William Le Queux

Delights of the Profession

A Narrow Squeak. Sir Paul Dukes A Cross-country Run. Belle Boyd Good Hunting. Maurice Paléologue Foreign Travel. Ian Fleming and Walter Schellenberg Seex Fat English Pigs. Lechmere Worrall and J. E. Harold Terry

Room At the Bottom

The Case of the Dixon Torpedo. Arthur Morrison The Adventures of Bonaparte. Compton Mackenzie

Unexpected Encounters

Colette and Mata Hari. Colette The Man in the Soft Cap. Edmund Blunden A Meet in the Shires. William Le Queux

Not Known to the Secret Services

The Spies’ March, 1913. Rudyard Kipling A Royal Spy. Alan H. Burgoyne Schnitzel Alias Jones. Richard Harding Davis How It Strikes a Contemporary. Robert Browning

Some Simple Disguises

Could Not Believe His Eyes. Sir Robert Baden-Powell None Other Than … William Le Queux The Waiters’ Union. E. Phillips Oppenheim

Professional Perquisites

Royal Gifts. William Le Queux A Well-appointed Office. Walter Schellenberg Blanc de Blanc Brut, 1943. Ian Fleming A Certificate from General Washington. Fenimore Cooper

Spare-Time Activities

Prison Reading. R. H. Bruce Lockhart Planning a Novel. Eric Ambler Love. Major André A Gaggle of Suspects Queer People. Sir Basil Thomson The Lawrences. Hugh Kingsmill Operation Goethe. Thomas Mann What the Soldier Said. William Blake Coleridge and Wordsworth, Suspects. S. T. Coleridge The Gendarme and the Painter. Paul Gauguin A Lawyer from Kent. Walter Schellenberg The Amorous Duchess. Maurice Paléologue Postscript to Dreyfus. Guy Chapman Tricks of the Trade Beneath the Open Windows. Thomas Hardy The Ordinary Route. Maurice Paléologue Equipment for Tibet. Lieutenant-Colonel F. M. Bailey Vodka with Pepper. Ian Fleming Dichlorethyl Sulphide. Roger Lancelyn Green Butterfly-hunting in Dalmatia. Sir Robert Baden-Powell Carrier Pigeons. H. R. Berndorff A Visit to the Lavatory. R. H. Bruce Lockhart Top People Read The Times. William Le Queux The Ambassador’s Valet. Maurice Paléologue Russian Methods. H. R. Berndorff The Explosive Cigar. William Le Queux A Plant. Admiral Sir William James The Hansom Cab Approach. George Griffith Calloway’s Code. O. Henry

Epilogue. Hugh Greene About the Editors Bibliography Acknowledgments