The Crouching Beast (novel)

The Crouching Beast

Author	Valentine Williams
Language	English
Series	Clubfoot
Genre	Spy thriller
Publisher	Hodder and Stoughton Houghton Mifflin (US)
Publication date	1928
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
Preceded by	Clubfoot the Avenger
Followed by	The Gold Comfit Box

The Crouching Beast is a 1928 spy thriller novel by the British author Valentine Williams. ^[1] It is part of his series of novels and short stories featuring the character of "Clubfoot", the alias of Doctor Adolph Grunt a brilliant but sinister German secret service mastermind. ^[2] It is set in Constantinople, capital of the Ottoman Empire, during the First World War.

Film adaptation

In 1935 it was adapted into a British film of the same title directed by Victor Hanbury and starring Fritz Kortner, Wynne Gibson and Andrews Engelmann. ^[3]

References

1. Reilly p.1495
2. Burton p.420
3. Goble p.503

Bibliography

• Burton, Alan. Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.