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.
So my selection of novels reflects the interests of a historian, and draws on both domestic and foreign espionage. They are classics in being of some antiquity, and because, in addition to being of literary merit, they tell us something of their era. 1. The Spy; or, A Tale of the Neutral Ground by James Fenimore Cooper (1821) A factually-based account of the exploits of Harvey Birch, a secret agent in the American War of Independence. The impecunious spy belonged to a condition in life which rendered him the least reluctant to appear in so equivocal a character.