The Deadly Isles
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First edition
The Deadly Isles is a novel by American author Jack Vance published in 1969 by Bobbs-Merrill and as part of the 2002 Vance Integral Edition.
Plot introduction[]
A young scientist with family ties to a vast fortune survives a murder attempt by a stranger while working in French Tahiti, and allows the assailant and the police to believe the attempt was successful. Incognito, he follows the would-be murderer aboard an island-hopping passenger/cargo schooner bound for the Marquesas, intending to find the man out.
Categories:
- 1969 American novels
- 1969 science fiction novels
- Novels by Jack Vance
- Novels set in Oceania
- Novels set in Tahiti
- Bobbs-Merrill Company books
- 1960s novel stubs