The Lonely Skier

The Lonely Skier is a 1947 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. It is set in the Dolomites where a number of people are hunting a stash of buried Nazi treasure. The hero Neil Blair, recently demobbed from the army and unemployed, is hired to go to an isolated ski resort and pretend he is writing a screenplay.

The Lonely Skier
First edition
AuthorHammond Innes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherCollins
Publication date
1947
Media typePrint

In 1948 it was adapted into a film Snowbound directed by David MacDonald for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Dennis Price, Robert Newton and Herbert Lom.[1]

References

  1. Goble p.238

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.


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