After Midnight (Albrand novel)
Author | Martha Albrand |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Thriller |
Publisher | Random House (New York) Chatto and Windus (London) |
Publication date | 1948 |
Media type |
After Midnight is a 1948 thriller novel by the German writer Martha Albrand, who had been living in the United States since 1937.[1] It was initially serialized in a slightly different version under the title Dishonored in The Saturday Evening Post.[2]
Synopsis[]
During World War II American OSS operative Webster Carr was betrayed to the Germans on a small Italian island. After the war he returns again to uncover who it was who gave him away.
Film adaptation[]
In 1950 it was adapted into the Hollywood film Captain Carey, U.S.A. directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Alan Ladd, Wanda Hendrix and Francis Lederer.
References[]
Bibliography[]
- Deutsch, James I. Coming Home from "The Good War": World War II Veterans as Depicted in American Film and Fiction. George Washington University, 1991.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
Categories:
- 1948 American novels
- 1948 German novels
- Novels by Martha Albrand
- German thriller novels
- Novels set in Italy
- German novels adapted into films
- Random House books
- 1940s novel stubs
- Thriller novel stubs