Victor Canning: 4 books

Mr Edgar Finchley, unmarried clerk, aged 45, is told to take a holiday for the first time in his life. He decides to go to the seaside. But Fate has other plans in store… From his abduction by a cheerful crook, to his smuggling escapade off the south coast, the timid but plucky Mr Finchley...

This series of pen-portraits of England, commissioned by the Daily Mail in the 1930s, provides a delightful insight into life between the wars, peppered with heart-warming, humorous and often irreverent observations.

Book 3 of the classic trilogy of humorous rural adventures through pre-war England Mr Finchley takes a fancy to a horse-drawn caravan that he sees for sale, but his new wife does not relish the prospect of a caravan journey so she goes to visit her brother, while he sets out to explore the...

Chaque année, une centaine de réfugiés passés à l’Ouest, disparaissent. L’A.G.R.I.P., un organisme commercial, sert de couverture à un service très spécial de “récupération” de certaines personnes ayant ainsi choisi la liberté. Richard Manston est mis sur l’affaire par les Services...