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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book about Raven, Anne, European entitled A Gun for Sale?
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conversations.value: A Gun for Sale: Raven, an English assassin, is hired to kill a government minister in a European country (in fact, Czechoslovakia), an act calculated to provoke a European war.\nReturning to London, he is paid off in cash by his contact, who uses the false name "Cholmondely".\nHowever, when Raven starts spending the notes, he discovers they were stolen.\nFurious at being cheated and hunted by the police who think he was the thief, without a ticket he follows "Cholmondeley" onto a train going to Nottwich.\nAlso on the train is Anne Crowder, a chorus girl travelling to start work in a pantomime.\nHer fiancée, Mather, is the detective leading the hunt for Raven.\nAt Nottwich, Raven uses Anne\'s ticket to get off the station and, since she has recognised him, he takes her to an empty house to kill her.\nEscaping, she does not report what has happened, out of sympathy for Raven, but instead goes to the theatre to work.\nThere, she is asked out to dinner by one of the backers, Davis, who is "Cholmondely".\nAfter dinner he takes her to a house where, when he realizes she knows about his involvement with Raven, he smothers her, though he does not kill her.\nThe owner of the house helps herself to Anne\'s smart monogrammed handbag and the next day is seen with it in the street by Raven, who forces his way into the house and finds Anne weak but still alive.\nShe agrees to cooperate with him, since both want Davis/Cholmondely dead, and he takes her to a hideout he has found.\nWhile in hiding, they discuss Raven\'s murder of the government minister; Raven also talks to Anne about his childhood and the difficult circumstances in which he discovered his mother\'s suicide—details that will anticipate Raven\'s own death and the imagery the novel utilizes to depict his final moments.\nIn the night, the hideout is surrounded by police, led by Jimmy Mather, and Anne decoys them so that Raven can escape.\nNonetheless, Raven has to shoot and wound a policeman in order to flee.\nThere is gas drill practise, in preparation for war, and everyone, except Raven, is wearing a gas-mask, so forces a student participating in a rag to undress and give him his clothes and gas-mask.\nThusly disguised as a student participating in the rag stunt, Raven spots Davis, sans gas-mask, in the street, and fines him for charity.\nDavis says he has no cash and will pay him in his office.\nGoing there, Raven discovers it is the headquarters of a giant steel company that will profit hugely from a war and that the boss is Sir Marcus, a corrupt Jewish industrialist.\nUpon discovering that Marcus is Davis/Cholmondely\'s boss Raven takes him at gunpoint up to the suite of Sir Marcus.\nAfter explaining his reasons, he kills both men and is himself shot dead by police who have surrounded the building.