The Flying Dutchman is a 1939 novel by a British author Michael Arlen, published by Heinemann in the UK and by Doubleday Doran in the US. It was his last book. The novel has been characterised as a psychological study of "an unfrightened man exploring the darkness of the mind." Kirkus Reviews described it as an urbane and witty fantasy with topical implications. Source: Wikipedia (en)