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To the Hilt Study Guide

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by Dick Francis
About 15 pages (4,485 words)
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Literary Precedents

Like other Francis novels, To the Hilt is as much an adventure story as it is a detective novel or whodunit, and therefore it has a kinship with Ian Fleming's James Bond stories, which Francis has acknowledged as having read. His portrait of Alexander Kinloch, a solitary hero pursued by villains, is in the tradition of John Buchan, whose Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), also set in a sparsely populated area of Scotland,.....

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To the Hilt from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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