Ten Cape Girardeau businesses will participate in the Taste of Cape restaurant hop April 21 to benefit Southeast Missouri State University's department of theatre and dance.
Eric Amblerâs 1938 novel Epitaph for a Spy is a perfect example of his distinctive approach to spy fiction. Amblerâs heroes were not professional spies but ordinary people caught up in the dangerous web of espionage. They do not thereby metamorphose into brave and noble heroes.
Legendary detective novelist and occasional screenwriter. Created Philip Marlowe. Died midway through writing his last Philip Marlowe novel, Poodle Springs, in 1959. More than three decades later, it was completed by Chandler admirer Robert B. Parker (author of the Spenser novels), and became a best-seller. Encouraged Ian Fleming to continue writing his James Bond novels in the mid 1950s by writing a few words of recommendation to Fleming's American publishers.