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The Golden Salamander
1949 novel by Victor Canning From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Golden Salamander is a 1949 thriller novel by the British writer Victor Canning.
Plot
On a visit to a sleepy North African town on a mission to catalogue relics for a British museum, professor of ethnology and former covert agent David Redfern becomes involved in an arms smuggling racket and a romance with a local woman.
Reception
The novel was positively reviewed in The News and Observer,[1] The Sun,[2] The Capital Times,[3] the Star-Phoenix,[4] and the Hartford Courant.[5] In The New York Times, Orville Prescott called it "good clean fun".[6]
Film adaptation
In 1949 the novel was adapted into the film Golden Salamander, directed by Ronald Neame, and starring Trevor Howard, Anouk Aimée, and Herbert Lom.[7]
References
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