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O: The End of the Affair (1951)

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  To C.  [ wikipedia ] [ goodreads ] [ editions/covers ] real husband Henry Maurice Bendrix, writer [ surname invented ] Sarah Miles Henry Miles, her husband, civil servant Book One Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Book Two Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Book Three Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Book Four Chapter I Chapter II Book Five Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII

N: The Third Man (1949)

 17 chapters [ film ] [ goodreads ] [ editions/covers ] Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) Anna Schmidt (Alida Valli) Harry Lime (Orson Welles) Major Calloway (Trevor Howard) Karl, Lime's porter (Paul Hörbiger) 'Baron' Kurtz (Ernst Deutsch) Dr. Winkel (Erich Ponto) Popescu (Siegfried Breuer) Anna's old landlady (Hedwig Bleibtreu) Sergeant Paine (Bernard Lee) Crabbin (Wilfrid Hyde-White)

L: The Tenth Man (1944 film script)

 18 chapters in four parts  [ borrow ] [ goodreads ]  

M: The Heart of the Matter (1948)

 19 chapters, nine 'parts', three 'books' [ wikipedia ] [ goodreads ] [ editions/covers ]   reviews w/spoilers: [ astrofella ]  "If one knew, he wondered, the facts, would one have to feel pity even for the planets? if one reached what they called the heart of the matter?" Henry Scobie Louise Major Henry Scobie – Longtime police deputy commissioner and protagonist of the novel. Louise Scobie – Henry's devout Catholic wife. Catherine Scobie – Deceased daughter of Henry and Louise. Ali – Scobie's longtime African servant. Edward Wilson – New inspector who spies on Major Scobie and is in love with his wife, Louise. Harris – Wilson's housemate 'Dicky' Pemberton – Inspector who commits suicide due to his large debt to Yusef. Helen Rolt – Newly arrived widow who becomes Scobie's mistress. Yusef – Syrian local black marketeer who blackmails Scobie after finding a letter in which he expresses his love for Helen. Tallit – Catholic Syrian, Yusef&

K: The Ministry of Fear (1943)

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  [ wikipedia ] [ goodreads ] [ editions/covers ]  reviews w/spoilers: [ astrofella ] The Little Duke [ ebook ] Whate’er befall I’ll oft recall that sunlit mountainside: [ lyrics ] Arthur Rowe Book One: The Unhappy Man 1. The Free Mothers 2. Private Inquiries 3. Frontal Assault 4. An Evening with Mrs Bellairs 5. Between Sleeping and Waking 6. Out of Touch 7. A Load of Books Book Two: The Happy Man 1. Conversations in Arcady 2. The Sick Bay Book Three: Bits and Pieces 1. The Roman Death 2. Mopping Up 3. Wrong Numbers Book Four: The Whole Man 1. Journey’s End

J: The Power and the Glory (1940)

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    [ wikipedia ] [ goodreads ]  [ editions/covers ] reviews w/spoilers: [ astrofella ] gaseosa soda bottle

I: The Confidential Agent (1939)

 eleven chapters in four parts 'fuelled by Benzedrine, Greene wrote it in six weeks' [ wikipedia ] [ goodreads ] [ editions/covers ]  reviews w/spoilers: [ astrofella ] D L Rose Lord Benditch