Brewer's: Turkish Spy

was written by John Paul Marana, an Italian, who had been imprisoned for conspiracy. After his release he retired to Monaco, where he wrote the History of the Plot. Subsequently he removed to Paris, and produced his Turkish Spy, in which he gives the history of the last age.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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