The Golden Salamander
The Golden Salamander is a 1949 thriller novel by the British writer Victor Canning.
Plot
On a visit to a sleepy North African town on a mission to catalogue relics for a British museum, professor of ethnology and former covert agent David Redfern becomes involved in an arms smuggling racket and a romance with a local woman.
Reception
The novel was positively reviewed in The News and Observer, ''The Sun, The Capital Times, the Star-Phoenix, and the Hartford Courant. In The New York Times'', Orville Prescott called it "good clean fun".
Film adaptation
In 1949 the novel was adapted into the film Golden Salamander, directed by Ronald Neame, and starring Trevor Howard, Anouk Aimée, and Herbert Lom.