The cover of the spy novel Wallace Intervenes by Alexander Wilson, published in 1939. While in Lahore, Wilson began writing spy novels and received his first contract for The Mystery of Tunnel 51 from Longmans, Green & Co. in 1927.

2017年5月18日 · We know for certain that he worked for the Secret Intelligence Service between 1939 and 1942, spying on the communications of embassies and diplomatic legations in war-torn London.

With the striking dust-wrapper cover of the Nazi Swastika Alexander Wilson’s ‘Best Spy Story’ has the British Secret Service sending a male honeytrap to infiltrate the intimacy and heart… Read More

2018年12月12日 · BBC One's Mrs Wilson - in which the actress Ruth Wilson plays her own grandmother - has shone an unforgiving light on the author, spy and bigamist Alexander Wilson. But not one living...

2019年3月31日 · So, who was the real Alexander Wilson? Get Wallace! Ruth Wilson's grandfather was a spy, a novelist, a former English professor at the University of Punjab in Lahore, and a serial...

As the author of Chronicles of the Secret Service, Microbes of Power and The Death of Dr Whitelaw, Alexander Wilson earned critical plaudits and enjoyed excellent sales. His spy thrillers...

2019年1月1日 · Who was Alexander Wilson? What role did he play in the murky world of espionage before and during the Second World War? Was he a patriot or an inveterate liar? Is it possible that a look at the situation in Egypt, and specifically Cairo, during that period may lead to some answers, or will it simply lead to more questions? Alison Wilson

2018年11月15日 · When his mother died in 1965, all he could find was a spy novel Alexander Wilson had written called Wallace Intervenes, published in 1939, and an album of largely unlabelled photographs of Mike’s parents in British India during the 1920s and early 30s. What did you find out? I thought this would be very straightforward and fairly easy.

Alexander Joseph Patrick Wilson (24 October 1893 – 4 April 1963) was an English writer, spy and MI6 officer. He wrote under the names Alexander Wilson, Geoffrey Spencer, Gregory Wilson, and Michael Chesney. After his death, his family discovered that he had been a serial polygamist who had lied to many people.

Alexander Joseph Patrick Wilson (24 October 1893 – 4 April 1963) was an English writer, spy and MI6 officer. A scan of the front dustcover of the spy novel 'Wallace Intervenes' by Alexander Wilson published in 1939.