{"id":171,"date":"2014-07-02T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/?p=171"},"modified":"2014-10-30T19:30:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T00:30:38","slug":"the-alphabet-library-q-is-for-the-quiller-series-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/2014\/07\/02\/the-alphabet-library-q-is-for-the-quiller-series-by\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alphabet Library: Q is for the Quiller series, by Adam Hall &#8211; Telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/booknews\/10931603\/The-Alphabet-Library-Q-is-for-the-Quiller-series-by-Adam-Hall.html\">The Alphabet Library: Q is for the Quiller series, by Adam Hall &#8211; Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote class=\"link_og_blockquote\">\n<div>In association with AbeBooks.co.uk, Tim Martin continues his series on the A to Z of forgotten books. This week, he recalls Adam Hall\u2019s Quiller series, a collection of suspenseful Cold War spy novels<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Apart from the unjust knock on Bond, this article is a fine introduction to my second-favorite spy series, Adam Hall\u2019s Quiller novels. The Quiller books were a a major influence on my teen espionage adventure, <em>The Boy Who Knew Too Much<\/em>. I gave my chapters one-word titles, which I lifted directly from Adam Hall. Nobody, and I do mean <em>nobody<\/em>, kept a reader in suspense like Adam Hall, whose real name was Elleston Trevor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alphabet Library: Q is for the Quiller series, by Adam Hall &#8211; Telegraph In association with AbeBooks.co.uk, Tim Martin continues his series on the A to Z of forgotten books. This week, he recalls Adam Hall\u2019s Quiller series, a collection of suspenseful Cold War spy novels Apart from the unjust knock on Bond, this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[72,338],"tags":[78,214,15,92,96,471,132,180],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-books","category-spy-novels-books","tag-adam-hall","tag-elleston-trevor","tag-james-bond","tag-quiller","tag-spy-novels","tag-the-boy-who-knew-too-much","tag-ya-fiction","tag-ya-spy-novels","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5foza-2L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}