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The Private Wound by Nicholas Blake (April/May 22)
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This short standalone crime novel is beautifully written and hard to put down (I read most of it in one sitting), making me want to read more by Nicholas Blake (the pen name of poet Cecil Day-Lewis. This is not a whodunit but a tale of two strangers who agree to swap murders - a plot which Patricia Highsmith had already used a few years earlier in Strangers on a Train.
In this case, it's strangers in a pub. The lovelorn Ned Stowe, teetering on the verge of a breakdown, wants his wife Helena out ...more
In this case, it's strangers in a pub. The lovelorn Ned Stowe, teetering on the verge of a breakdown, wants his wife Helena out ...more
Having read all the Nigel Strangeways mysteries, I was keen to read Nicholas Blake's (pen name for Cecil Day-Lewis) stand alone crime novels.
This is something of an unoriginal plot. Stuart Hammer, keen to bump off his uncle, pay off his debts and inherit his company, joins forces with Ned Stowe, equally desirous of ridding himself of his wife Helena, in order to marry his mistress, Laura, who has become tired of waiting for him. Stuart suggests he dispatch Helena and Ned kill his uncle. Nothing ...more
This is something of an unoriginal plot. Stuart Hammer, keen to bump off his uncle, pay off his debts and inherit his company, joins forces with Ned Stowe, equally desirous of ridding himself of his wife Helena, in order to marry his mistress, Laura, who has become tired of waiting for him. Stuart suggests he dispatch Helena and Ned kill his uncle. Nothing ...more
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