By C. S. Forester
Publish yr note: First released in 1930
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At the common ads organisation at the Strand, London, a homicide is being deliberate. 3 males were came upon taking bribes and face the bleak prospect of the dole queue, except they could cast off the person that stuck them. Their ringleader, thick-set and harsh Mr Morris, quickly discovers that killing is much more straightforward than he idea - and that he even has a expertise for it. He may possibly, he feels, be superhuman. yet as he'll observe, there isn't any such factor because the excellent crime, and no deed is going unpunished. Taking us right into a Thirties London of dirty again streets, smoky cafes and tacky rooms, simple homicide, C. S. Forester's moment crime novel, is a brilliantly atmospheric and gripping portrayal of the darkish center of a killer.
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