A Girl from Lübeck

A Girl from Lübeck
First US edition
Author	Bruce Marshall
Country	United Kingdom (Scotland)
Language	English
Published	Collins (UK) 1962 Houghton Mifflin (US) 1962
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	216

A Girl from Lübeck is a 1962 novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall.

Plot summary

Versory, a literary lecturer engaged in spreading English culture (“From Beowulf to Dylan Thomas”) throughout Germany, needs a ride after delivering a talk to a group of matrons. Imagine his surprise when his driver is the gorgeous Hannelore, a girl in a thousand.

Her blond beauty and charming personality ensnare his heart and imagination. They arrange to meet again in Paris, to attend a meeting of literary lecturers from other countries.

It is in Paris that Versory’s suspicions are aroused. How does she afford her expensive clothes and other habits? Hannelore claims that there is no way to contact her, that she will get in touch with him. Even though she contacts him regularly and her affection for him is obvious, he wonders if Hannelore is what she seems.

And for that matter, Versory himself is not what he appears to be, his career as a lecturer is actually just a convenient cover for other activities. In fact, in this fast-moving and paradoxical story, few people are what they seem to be, even to themselves.

Is the lecturer from Russia interested only in stimulating an appreciation of Russian literature? And what is his connection with the gentleman from South America? What is Hannelore doing in the elegant establishment of Mme. Putiphar?

Where is Vesory’s chief taking her in the sports car—and why? Does she really love Versory or is she only using him?

The answers to these questions are revealed as "A Girl from Lübeck" unfolds. It is a story with several levels: it is a romance, a tale of suspense and intrigue, a lighthearted satire, but it is also a parable. For in the end, the mystery surrounding the girl from Lübeck is cleared away and the meaning of Faith and Grace is revealed.^[1]

References

↑ Marshall, Bruce. A Girl from Lübeck, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1962.

Works by Bruce Marshall

Novels	A Thief in the Night (ca 1918) This Sorry Scheme (1924) The Stooping Venus (1926) Teacup Terrace (1926) And There Were Giants (1927) The Other Mary (1927) High Brows (1929) The Little Friend (1929) The Rough House, a possibility (1930) Children of This Earth (1930) Father Malachy's Miracle (1931) Prayer for the Living (1934) The Uncertain Glory (1935) Canon to the Right of Them (1936) Luckypenny (1937) Delilah Upside Down, a Tract, with a Thrill (1941) Yellow Tapers for Paris (1943) The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith (1944) George Brown's Schooldays (1946) Vespers in Vienna (1947) To Every Man a Penny (1949) The Fair Bride (1953) Only Fade Away (1954) Girl in May (1956) The Accounting (1958) A Thread of Scarlet (1959) The Divided Lady (1960) A Girl from Lübeck (1962) The Month of the Falling Leaves (1963) Father Hilary's Holiday (1965) The Bishop (1970) The Black Oxen (1972) Urban the Ninth (1973) Operation Iscariot (1974) Marx the First (1975) Peter the Second (1976) The Yellow Streak (1977) Prayer for a Concubine (1978) Flutter in the Dovecote (1986) A Foot in the Grave (1987) An Account of Capers (1988)

Non-fiction	The White Rabbit (1953) Thoughts of My Cats (1954)

Other	Contribution to A Time to Laugh (1949) "The Curé of Ars," chapter in Saints for Now (1952) Introduction to Rue Notre Dame (1953) Foreword to Top Secret Mission (1955)

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