''Night Walker'' is a 1954
spy novel
Spy fiction is a genre of literature involving espionage as an important context or plot device. It emerged in the early twentieth century, inspired by rivalries and intrigues between the major powers, and the establishment of modern intellig ...
by
Donald Hamilton
Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (March 24, 1916 – November 20, 2006) was an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction, but also crime ...
. It was first serialized in Collier's Magazine in 1951 as ''Mask for Danger''.
Plot summary
Navy Lt. David Young hitches a ride with a friendly stranger and wakes up in a hospital bed with a new name and a pretty young wife.
Publication history
*1951, US, ''
Collier's
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''Collier's'' was an American general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter F. Collier, Peter Fenelon Collier. It was launched as ''Collier's Once a Week'', then renamed in 1895 as ''Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal'', shortened i ...
'', as "
Mask For Danger", 6/16/1951, 6/23/1951, 6/30/1951, 7/7/1951, 7/14/1951,
serial (literature)
In literature, a serial is a printing or publishing format by which a single larger Creative work, work, often a work of Narrative, narrative fiction, is published in smaller, sequential instalments. The instalments are also known as ''numbers ...
*1954, US,
Dell
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, Dell First Edition #27, paperback
*1964, US,
Fawcett Publications
Fawcett Publications was an American publishing company founded in 1919 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, by Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett (1885–1940).
It kicked off with the publication of the bawdy humor magazine ''Captain Billy's Whiz ...
, Gold Medal k1472, paperback, reprinted several times
*2006, US,
Hard Case Crime
Hard Case Crime is an American Imprint (trade name), imprint of hardboiled crime novels founded in 2004 by Charles Ardai and Max Phillips. The series recreates, in editorial form and content, the flavor of the paperback crime novels of the 1940s a ...
#16, , paperback
External links
Sample chapterfro
Hard Case Crime*
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1954 American novels
American spy novels
Novels by Donald Hamilton
Dell Publishing books
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