The Second Curtain by Roy Fuller

Oh, how delightful. Here is a man who loves language. It carries the story which is a slight one. A man's friend dies- he looks into it and suffers the consequences. There is no slam-bang finale and it proceeds quietly. It is a sojourn in someone's mind. You are not going to be transfixed by this Penguin Crime story, it will not even have you on the edge of your seat. But it's a great example of what a poet can do. Love it and leave it - a gentle little excursion into one man's mind 4/5