North From Rome
1958
First Published
3.85
Average Rating
308
Number of Pages
Bill Lammiter, a young American playwright, has lost his girl and is on the point of leaving Rome. Then Lammiter saves a mysterious Italian girl from a beating and the fat is in the fire. A kidnapping, a battle in a Renaissance villa, a shrewd gamekeeper, a chance snapshot and a touring preppy contribute to the excitement and suspense of this story, and also prove a testing ground for Lammiter and his sweetheart.
Avg Rating
3.85
Number of Ratings
743
5 STARS
29%
4 STARS
36%
3 STARS
29%
2 STARS
6%
1 STARS
1%
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Author
Helen MacInnes
Author · 24 books
Helen MacInnes was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels. She graduated from the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1928 with a degree in French and German. A librarian, she married Professor Gilbert Highet in 1932 and moved with her husband to New York in 1937 so he could teach classics at Columbia University. She wrote her first novel, Above Suspicion, in 1939. She wrote many bestselling suspense novels and became an American citizen in 1951.
