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Surely "An expensive place to die" is a "Harry Palmer" Novel also, as I've seen a Michael Caine interview in which he say's he regrets not having made that book into a movie. Regards Steve

Please provide a link to this quote if possible, as it is considered that, although featuring another unnamed spy writing in the first person, aEPtD is actually a different spy to Harry Palmer. However, possibly either the book could have been adapted into featuring Harry Palmer just because Michael Caine would be starring in it, or Caine would be playing this 'different' spy.

Or maybe Michael Caine just read the book wrong, and thought it was Harry Palmer, when it isn't. The Yeti 12:49, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

The nameless character, known in the film adaptations as "Harry Palmer", who is from Burnley, works for WOO(C)P, and whose boss is Dawlish and secretary/girlfriend is Jean, only appears in the first four novels--the others are about a different nameless spy working for a different intelligence branch. Grackle 18:39, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

I think it's a little more complex than that. In one of the subsequent "nameless spy" novels, Dawlish (the "boss" of WOOC(P)) in all but the first of the earlier novels) reappears at a party (I regret that I do not have the books handy for reference purposes); so while it's clear that the hero is working for someone else, it seems to be the same hero. [Note that it's WOOC(P); we know from a remark of Ross's that the "P" stands for Provisional, and it's reasonable to assume that WO stands for "War Office."] 70.196.144.109 18:27, 24 November 2006 (UTC) EJBleendreeble