Spy fiction
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Form
- Spy fiction
Variants
- Cloak and dagger fiction
- Espionage fiction
Broader Terms
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Sources
- found: Concise Oxford companion to English literature, via Oxford reference online, Nov. 7, 2012(spy fiction: novels of espionage, intrigue and violence, in which secret agent heroes battle against villainous spies)
- found: British crime writing : an encyclopedia, 2009:p. xxi (The dividing line between crime and espionage fiction is often hard to detect, and more strict delineations between genres are a relatively recent phenomenon; Espionage fiction, with its potentially wider canvas than crime novels, has been able to make more pertinent points about the society that produced it than most crime fiction; spy novel; spy story)
- found: GSAFD, 2000(Spy stories. Use for fiction dealing with espionage, secret agents, and secret service agencies. UF Spy novels; Espionage stories)
- found: LCSH, Oct. 21, 2014(Spy stories. UF Cloak and dagger fiction; Espionage stories; Spy novels; Spy thrillers; Thrillers, Spy)
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- 2014-12-01: new
- 2015-10-16: revised
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