Which English author who died in 1991 published novels such as A Gun For Sale in 1936 and The Ministry Of Fear in 1943?
A Gun for Sale 1942 film was remade in 1957 under the title "Short Cut to Hell" and as a TV movie in 1991 starring Robert Wagner. A Gun for Sale A Gun For Sale is a 1936 novel by Graham Greene about a criminal called Raven, a man dedicated to ugly deeds. When he is paid, with stolen notes, for killing the Minister of War, he becomes a man on the run. Tracking down the agent who double-crossed him, and eluding the police simultaneously, he becomes both the hunter and the hunted. The novel was published and filmed in the United States under
A Gun for Sale both men and is himself shot dead by police who have surrounded the building. The novel was first published by Doubleday Doran in the US in June 1936 as "This Gun For Hire" and by William Heinemann in the UK in July 1936 as "A Gun For Sale". Several film and television adaptations have been made: a 1942 film version transposed to wartime California starred Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake under the US title "This Gun for Hire", a Turkish adaptation ("Günes Dogmasin") was made in 1961, and an Italian television mini-series, "Una pistola in vendita", followed in 1970. The