''Killer Mine'' or ''The Killer Mine'' is a 1947

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by the British writer Hammond Innes.Vinson & Kirkpatrick p.455 Jim Pryce, a deserter from the British Army, returns clandestinely from Italy aboard the ship ''Arisaig'' to his native Cornwall, but is left on a beach having been robbed, beaten, and implicated in murder. Seeking to use his mining expertise, he becomes involved in an attempt to re-open the abandoned and flooded Wheal Garth mine owned by the elderly Manack, but Manack's son and his henchmen force him to drill a sea entrance from one of the mine galleries to be used for smuggling liquor. His only ally is the girl, Kitty, who delivers him a letter from his long-dead mother and hints that her death was not an accident, but part of a plot by which old Manack gained control of the mine. In the United States it was published by

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as ''Run by Night''.

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* James Vinson & D. L. Kirkpatrick. ''Contemporary Novelists''. St. James Press, 1986. 1947 British novels Novels by Hammond Innes British thriller novels Novels set in Cornwall William Collins, Sons books {{1940s-thriller-novel-stub