''Time Right Deadly'' is a 1956
thriller novel
Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving their audiences heightened feelings of suspe ...
by the British writer
Sarah Gainham. Her debut novel, it was shortlisted for the
Gold Dagger Award, losing out to
Edward Grierson's ''
The Second Man''. Like many of her novels it takes place in
post-war
A post-war or postwar period is the interval immediately following the end of a war. The term usually refers to a varying period of time after World War II, which ended in 1945. A post-war period can become an interwar period or interbellum, ...
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
, where she lived.
[Burton p.171]
References
Bibliography
* Burton, Alan. ''Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
* Hicken, Mandy & Prytherch, Raymond John. ''Now Read on: A Guide to Contemporary Popular Fiction''. Scolar Press, 1994.
* Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015.
1956 British novels
Novels by Sarah Gainham
British thriller novels
Novels set in Austria
Arthur Barker Limited books
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