1930
Charles McCarry is born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. McCarry examines the lives of two families, the Hubbards and the Christophers-both in the business of espionage and counter espionage. McCarry spends ten years working for the CIA, and his experiences are reflected in the attitude of his unusual hero, poet-spy Paul Christopher. The Last Supper (1983) moves from the 1920s to the present, using the Christopher family as a historical barometer.
John Dickson Carr modeled his Gideon Fell on Chesterton.
1936
GK Chesterton dies. His 1908 thriller The Man Who Was Thursday, combines detection, espionage, secret codes, anarchists, disguises, policemen, slapstick and theology. He is also the author of the Father Brown mysteries.
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