 First edition | |
| Author | Hammond Innes |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Collins |
| Publication date | 1947 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
Killer Mine or The Killer Mine is a 1947 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. Jim Pryce, a deserter from the British Army, returns clandestinely from Italy aboard the ship Arisaig to his native Cornwall, but is left on a beach having been robbed, beaten, and implicated in murder. Seeking to use his mining expertise, he becomes involved in an attempt to re-open the abandoned and flooded Wheal Garth mine owned by the elderly Manack, but Manack's son and his henchmen force him to drill a sea entrance from one of the mine galleries to be used for smuggling liquor. His only ally is the girl, Kitty, who delivers him a letter from his long-dead mother and hints that her death was not an accident, but part of a plot by which old Manack gained control of the mine.
In the United States it was published by Harper as Run by Night.
References
- Vinson & Kirkpatrick p.455
Bibliography
- James Vinson & D. L. Kirkpatrick. Contemporary Novelists. St. James Press, 1986.
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