Ordinary travellers and professionals repeatedly stumble into intelligence networks in Helen MacInnes’s espionage fiction. Above Suspicion follows an English academic couple travelling through pre-war Europe while carrying information for British intelligence, and Assignment in Brittany sends an agent into occupied France under a dead man’s identity. The Salzburg Connection begins with a document hidden in an Austrian lake and expands into post-war espionage, while The Venetian Affair uses Cold War intrigue around Venice and Paris. MacInnes combines travel detail, liberal anti-totalitarian politics and suspense without the moral murkiness associated with later spy fiction. The catalogue connects most clearly with classic espionage, Second World War thrillers and Cold War suspense alongside Eric Ambler and early John le Carré. Read more Less
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