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Containing Matters conserning vars. Surveillances and other issues of Sensitivity which have been Taken into Confidence by Gosudarstvickal Bodies appearing in divers Forms hitherto Considered pre-dating Bond.

Timestamps:

introduction, spy fiction background (0:00)

Helen MacInnes - "Above Suspicion" (1941) (34:38)

Arthur Morrison - "The Case of the Dixon Torpedo" (1894) (1:35:54)

Bibliography:

BBC Radio, Scotland FM - "Helen MacInnes, Queen of Spies" (2017)  https://archive.org/details/BBC_Radio_Scotland_FM_20170101_070000_Helen_MacInnes_Queen_of_Spies

Bold, Christine - "Secret negotiations: The Spy figure in Nineteenth‐century American popular fiction" in "Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence" (ed. Wesley K. Wark) (1991)

Hiley, Nicholas - "Decoding German Spies: British Spy Fiction, 1908-18" in "Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence" (ed. Wesley K. Wark) (1991)

Homberger, Eric - "English Spy Thrillers in the Age of Appeasement" in "Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence" (ed. Wesley K. Wark) (1991)

Lassner, Phyllis - "Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film" (2016)

Miles, Peter "A Child of the Jago: Chronology of Arthur Morrison" (2012)

Morrison, Kate "Morality and the Law in British Detective and Spy Fiction, 1880–1920" (2020)

Stafford, David - "The Silent Game: The Real World of Imaginary Spies" (1988)

Goodman, Sam - "British Spy Fiction and the End of Empire" (2015)

Trotter, David - "The Politics of Adventure in the Early British Spy Novel" in "Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence" (ed. Wesley K. Wark) (1991)

Wark, Wesley K. - introduction to "Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence" (ed. Wesley K. Wark) (1991)