description: The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a patriotic British 1903 novel by Erskine Childers.It is a novel that "owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain"; perhaps more significantly, it was a spy novel that "established a formula that included a mass of verifiable detail, which gave authenticity to the story - the same ploy that would be used so well by John Buchan, Ian Fleming, John le Carr� and many others." Ken Follett called it "the first modern thriller."
language: English
title: Riddle of the Sands
titlecomplete: Riddle of the Sands
characters: von Brüning, Dollmann, Arthur Davies, Bartels, Carruthers, Clara Dollmann, Böhme
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Classics, Espionage, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, Adventure
ratings_count: 6745
places: Germany, Kiel (Hauptstadt), Baltic Sea
publisher: Indypublish.Com