Query: 1934 British novels not set in the United Kingdom
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Burmese Days
The Taking of the Gry
Murder on the Orient Express
A Handful of Dust
Unfinished Portrait (novel)
Mr Noon
A Man Lay Dead
Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman
Voyage in the Dark
A Spy of Napoleon
Evidence from documents: Burmese Days: the first novel by English writer George Orwell, published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, the novel serves as "a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj."
The Taking of the Gry: '''''The Taking of the Gry''''' is a novel by John Masefield published in 1934, and set in the fictional Central or South American state of Santa Barbara, also the setting for ''ODTAA'', ''Sard Harker'', and part of ''The Midnight Folk''.
Murder on the Orient Express: 1934 British novels: a work of detective fiction by English writer Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 1 January 1934
not set in the United Kingdom: The opening chapters of the novel take place in Istanbul. The rest of the novel takes place in Yugoslavia, with the train trapped between Vinkovci and Brod.
A Handful of Dust: 1934 British novels: '''''A Handful of Dust''''' is a novel by the British writer Evelyn Waugh. First published in 1934, it is often grouped with the author's early, satirical comic novels for which he became famous in the pre-World War II years.
not set in the United Kingdom: The protagonist is Tony Last, a contented but shallow English country squire, who, having been betrayed by his wife and seen his illusions shattered one by one, joins an expedition to the Brazilian jungle, only to find himself trapped in a remote outpost as the prisoner of a maniac.
Unfinished Portrait (novel): 1934 British novels: '''''Unfinished Portrait''''' is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by Collins in March 1934 and in the US by Doubleday later in the same year.
not set in the United Kingdom: In a Spanish garden overlooking the sea an artist comes upon a solitary woman.
Mr Noon: The first part was published posthumously by Secker as a long short story in the 1934 volume ''A Modern Lover''.
A Man Lay Dead: '''''A Man Lay Dead''''' is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the first novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1934.
Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman: The British Library's on-line catalogue cites a Publisher's Note in later reprints by Futura 1978(1979) and Mandarin 1992 which mentions claims that the entire work is fiction without, however, endorsing the claims or naming the claimants.
Voyage in the Dark: '''''Voyage in the Dark''''' was written in 1934
A Spy of Napoleon: An illegitimate daughter of Louis Napoleon is taken on as an agent by Napoleon III, ruler of France, who wishes her to marry into and spy on the aristocracy who he suspects of wanting to overthrow him.