Hugh Greene
Personal Information
Description
> After a career as a foreign correspondent in several European countries, Hugh Greene joined the BBC in 1940 as Head of the German Service, a post he held throughout the war. After the war, he became successively Controller of Broadcasting in the British Zone of Germany, Head of the BBC East European Service, and Head of the Emergency Information Services in Malaya. In 1960 he was made Director-General of the BBC. Books to his credit include The Spy's Bedside Book, written in collaboration with his brother, Graham Greene, and The Third Floor Front: A View of Broadcasting in the Sixties.
Books
Cosmopolitan Crimes
> The foreign rivals of Sherlock Holmes face a sinister array of villains in these thirteen detective stories by contemporaries of Conan Doyle. A companion volume to The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Cosmopolitan Crimes shifts the scene to foreign locales where brilliant sleuths challenge Holmes at his own game. Whether the cases involve a lost bracelet in Belgium, anonymous letters in Vienna, a Mexican seer, or a beautiful woman who orders a doctor to chop off her finger, here are adventure, suspense, and brain-teasing mystery!
The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Weir, H. C. Cinderella's slipper. Ottolengui, R. the nameless man. Ottolengui, R. The Montezuma emerald. Flynt, J. and Walton, F. Found guilty. Futrelle, J. The scarlet thread. MacHarg, W. and Balmer, E. The man higher up. MacHarg, W. and Balmer, E. The Axton letters. Adams, S. H. The man who spoke Latin. Lynde, F. The cloud-bursters. Pidgin, C. F. and Taylor, J. M. The affair of Lamson's cook. Reeve, A. B. The campaign grafter. Anderson, F. I. The infallible Godahl. Davis, R. H. The frame-up.
The further rivals of Sherlock Holmes
> This latest collection by Hugh Greene of early twentieth-century crime stories, all set in the English countryside, completes the trio of volumes that began with The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes and Cosmopolitan Crimes. >On foot, by bicycle, or with the compliments of the British railways, the ingenious sleuths of this collection roam the hedgerows and large country houses, the inns and the remote dark corners of the English counties to track down the nefarious deeds of a most entertaining and colorful group of criminals.