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Elleston Trevor was the pseudonym, and eventually legal name, of the British novelist Trevor Dudley-Smith (February 17, 1920 - July 21, 1995), who also wrote as Adam Hall, Simon Rattray, Howard North, Roger Fitzalan, Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith and Lesley Stone. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Events 1500 - Battle of Hemmingstedt. 1600 - Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar Events 356 BC - Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Trevor worked in many genres, but is principally remembered for his 1964 adventure story The Flight of the Phoenix, written as Elleston Trevor, and for a series of Cold War thrillers featuring the British secret agent Quiller, written under the pseudonym Adam Hall. The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1964 novel by Elleston Trevor. Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the The thriller is a broad Genre of Literature, Film, Gaming and Television. The Genre of spy fiction —sometimes called political thriller or spy thriller or sometimes shortened simply to Spy-fi —arose before Quiller is the alias of a fictional spy created by English Novelist Elleston Trevor and featured in a series of Cold War

Born Trevor-Dudley Smith in Bromley, Kent. He lived in Spain and France before moving in 1973 to the United States, where he lived in Phoenix, Arizona. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Phoenix (ˈfiːˌnɪks O'odham Skikik, Yavapai Wasinka, Western Apache Fiinigis, Navajo Hoozdo, He was married and had a son. He was proficient in karate. ( or is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands from indigenous fighting methods and Chinese Kenpō.

The Quiller series focuses on a solitary, highly capable spy (named for Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch) who works (generally alone) for a government bureau that "doesn't exist" and narrates his own adventures. Quiller is the alias of a fictional spy created by English Novelist Elleston Trevor and featured in a series of Cold War Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (ˌkwɪlɚˈkuʧ ( 21 November 1863 - 12 May 1944) was a Cornish writer, who published under the Quiller (not his real name) occupies a literary middle ground between James Bond and the bland-but-crafty spies of John le Carré. James Bond 007 is a Fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve Novels and two Short story John le Carré is the Pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (born October 19, 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England He is a skilled driver, pilot, diver, and linguist, but does not carry a gun.

The series is very stylized, featuring intense depictions of spy tradecraft and professional relationships, surprise jump cuts between chapters, and deep, sometimes self-pitying interior monologues. The first of the Quiller novels, The Berlin Memorandum (1965) (retitled The Quiller Memorandum in the US) won an Edgar Award, from the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Novel. The Quiller Memorandum ( 1966) is a film adaptation of the 1965 spy novel The Berlin Memorandum, by Trevor Dudley-Smith, screenplay by The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars) named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. Mystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers based in New York. It was filmed in 1966 under its US title and starred George Segal and Alec Guinness. The year 1966 in film involved some significant events Events Walt Disney, well known for his creation of Mickey Mouse died on George Segal (born February 13, 1934 in Great Neck, Long Island, New York) is an American film and stage actor Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (2 April 1914 &ndash 5 August 2000 was an English Actor. It was also adapted into a 1975 British television series, featuring Michael Jayston. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U Michael Jayston (born Michael A James 29 October 1935 in Nottingham) is an English Actor.

As"Simon Rattray," he wrote mystery novels featuring Hugo Bishop, a brilliant man who, like Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, solved crimes as a kind of mental challenge. Agatha Mary Clarissa Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 &ndash 12 January 1976 commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English The first Bishop novel, Knight Sinister, appeared in 1951; five more followed, the last appearing in 1957. That Trevor could also be very effective in the straight, non-mystery genre is shown by The Billboard Madonna (1961), a chilling study of the advertising world: the protagonist accidentally kills a beautiful woman in a car crash, and is obsessively compelled to memorialize her.

Under the name "Adam Hall," he also wrote "The Volcanoes of San Domingoes," about a mysterious plane crash outside the coast of San Domingo and the efforts to uncover what really happened. When alerted by a report indicating that one of the crew members had been seen alive, "Rayner," an employee of the airline, is sent to investigate and ends up in a cascade of thrilling events. Manchester Evening News, Wrote: "A master in fantasy".

He also wrote children's book about the character Wumpus, a koala bear, and his friends, including Flip Flap, the penguin. Hunt the Wumpus is an early Computer game, based on a simple Hide and seek format featuring a mysterious monster (the Wumpus that lurks deep inside a network Titles included Wumpus (published 1945, by Gerald G. Swan), and More about Wumpus (published 1947).

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