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The novel is about a secret organization, The Assassination Bureau, Ltd., that will assassinate evildoers, for example, corrupt police commissioners, legislators, politicians, etc.; but will not act unless convinced that the target truly is worthy of assassination.
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in early 1910. London wrote 20,000 words of the novel before he gave it up later that same year, saying he could not find a logical way to conclude it. He died in 1916, leaving the book unfinished. The overall concept borrows heavily from
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In 1963, mystery writer Fish completed the novel based on the unfinished manuscript with additional notes by London and an ending outline done by London's widow Charmian shortly before her death in 1955.
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in 1970 for Female New Face. Whereas London's novel is set in the United States, the film is set in Europe in the 1900s.
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in 1970 for Best English-Language Foreign Film, and Rigg was nominated for a
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The novel was based on a story idea London purchased from author
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Vote with a Bullet: Assassination in American Fiction
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Jack London
Robert L. Fish
English
ISBN
0-14-018677-8
novel
Jack London
Robert L. Fish
Ivan Dragomiloff
Sinclair Lewis
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Assassination Bureau
Diana Rigg
Oliver Reed
Telly Savalas
Curt Jurgens
Basil Dearden
Golden Globe Award
Golden Laurel Award
Assassinations in fiction
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t
e
Jack London
The Cruise of the Dazzler
A Daughter of the Snows
The Call of the Wild
The Kempton-Wace Letters

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