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The 39 Steps

How Film Noir feeds my fiction
30 Mar 2026

How Film Noir feeds my fiction

by Derek Thompson | posted in: Creative writing, Crime mysteries, Derek Thompson, Derek's books, Spy fiction, Writing and Publishing | 0

Many of the spy novelists whose works I’ve enjoyed cite Ian Fleming, John le Carré, or Len Deighton as their primary inspiration. John Buchan also gets an honourable mention from time to time, along with Graham Greene. However, for my … Continued

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