Apples Carstairs · Book 1
The Big Needle
- Published
- 1 January 1974
- Pages
- 175
- ISBN-13
- 9780821710760
- Type
- novel
About this book
Writing under the pen name Simon Myles before Eye of the Needle made him famous, Ken Follett published The Big Needle in 1974 -- also released in the US as The Big Apple -- a lean 175-page caper introducing small-time London crook Apples Carstairs.
Its place in Apples Carstairs
The Big Needle is book 1 in the Apples Carstairs series. It is followed by The Big Black. See the full Apples Carstairs reading order.
Before Eye of the Needle made him famous, Ken Follett wrote a trio of paperback crime capers under the pen name Simon (also spelled Symon) Myles, following Apples Carstairs, a small-time London crook and con artist who gets pulled into schemes well above his usual league. The books belong to the pulpy, fast-turnaround caper-thriller tradition Follett was writing his way through in the mid-1970s while working as a newspaper reporter and journeyman genre novelist -- lean, plot-first books written for quick…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780821710760
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780890837870
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780821719213