Desperate Moment (novel)

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Desperate Moment
First edition (US)
AuthorMartha Albrand
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherRandom House
(New York)
Chatto and Windus
(London)
Publication date
1951
Media typePrint

Desperate Moment is a 1951 thriller novel by the German writer Martha Albrand, then living in the United States.[1] It takes place in postwar Europe where a man breaks out of prison to try and find the men who set him up.

Film adaptation[edit]

In 1953 it was made into a British film of the same title directed by Compton Bennett and starring Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling and Albert Lieven.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Reilly p.22
  2. ^ Goble p.5

Bibliography[edit]

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.