Man in the Cage, The-Jack Vance novel, book review
Man in the Cage, The- Jack Vance novel The Man in the Cage is an excellent, exciting, intriguing, suspenseful,198 page, mystery novel written by Jack Vance under the name of Ellery Queen . It was probably written in 1958. I’ve read all 14 of Vance’s mystery novels several times and this is my favorite. It is extremely well written, and I savored reading many of the highly descriptive sentences and passages. Vance provides outstanding physical and psychological descriptions of many colorful characters along with a picturesque portrait of the exotic life in Morocco during the time of the Algerian civil war. At times his prose was so vivid and visual that I felt like I was watching a movie instead of reading a book. In 1961 Vance was given the Edgar mystery book award for Best First Novel for The Man in the Cage . It was also made into an episode of the "Thriller" TV series, season 1, episode 18. Vance is justly famous for his ability to describe unusual pl...