Bear Island (novel)
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| Bear Island | |
 Cover of the 1972 U.S. paperback edition |
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| Author | Alistair MacLean |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Thriller Novel |
| Publisher | Collins |
| Publication date | 1971 |
| ISBN | NA |
| Preceded by | Caravan to Vaccarès |
| Followed by | Alistair MacLean Introduces Scotland (non-fiction) |
Bear Island is a Thriller novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean. Originally published in 1971, it was the last of MacLean's novels to be written in first-person narrative. This novel is a Locked room mystery with the added twist that the scene of the crimes is set on Bjørnøya, an island in the Svalbard archipelago of the Norwegian Arctic.
[edit] Plot Summary
A converted fishing trawler, Morning Rose carries a movie-making crew across the Barents Sea to isolated Bear Island, well above the Arctic Circle, for some on-location filming, but the script is a secret known only to the producer and screenwriter. En route, members of the movie crew and ship's company begin to die under mysterious circumstances. The crew's doctor, Marlowe, finds himself enmeshed in a violent, multi-layered plot in which very few of the persons aboard are whom they claim to be. Marlowe's efforts to unravel the plot become even more complicated once the movie crew is deposited ashore on Bear Island, beyond the reach of the law or outside help. The murders continue ashore, and Marlowe, who is not what he seems to be either, discovers they may be related to some forgotten events of the Second World War.
[edit] Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
Bear Island later appeared on film as a 1980 movie directed by Don Sharp and starring Donald Sutherland, Richard Widmark, Vanessa Redgrave, and Christopher Lee. However, the film was shot in Canada and Alaska, and the scenery does not at all resemble that of Bjørnøya. Furthermore, the plot and characterization of the novel were greatly altered by the scriptwriters, even to the point of changing the name of the protagonist from “Marlowe” to “Lansing”.
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