| Killer Mine | |
| Author: | Hammond Innes |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Thriller |
| Publisher: | Collins |
| Release Date: | 1947 |
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Killer Mine or The Killer Mine is a 1947 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes.[1] 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 Harper as Run by Night.