The Flying Dutchman (novel)

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First US edition

The Flying Dutchman is a 1939 novel by a British author

Doubleday Doran in the US.[1]
It was his last book.

The novel has been characterised as a psychological study of "an unfrightened man exploring the darkness of the mind."[2] Kirkus Reviews described it as an urbane and witty fantasy with topical implications.[3]

Plot summary

Chance Winter, whose self-hatred extends to a searing contempt for all humanity, assembles a clandestine group of anarchist killers.

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