You're right about Malet, and this reminds me of a British
writer, very popular before WW2 and certainly even more after
it: Peter Cheyney. In a lot of his novels he was mimicking
American HB and some of them are set during the war, even
among those with his famous hero Lemmy Caution, an FBI agent.
There was however a separate series of novels handling
espionage during wartime, all having the word "Dark" in their
titles, rather somber and better written. In this series :
Dark Duet (1942) - The stars are Dark
(1943) - The Dark street (1944) ...etc.
E.Borgers Hard-Boiled Mysteries http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
Polar Noir http://www.geocities.com/polarnoir
>Leo Malet's early Nestor Burma books are set in
occupied France and
>refer to Burma's days as a POW.
>
>Mark
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