By: Barlow, James
Price: $35.00
Publisher:
New York, Harper & Brothers: [1958] (c.1956)
Edition: Later Printing?
Seller ID: 23987
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
(price-clipped) [minor shelfwear to bottom edge, tiny dent in top of rear cover; jacket moderately scuffed and edgeworn, light soiling to rear panel]. Sort of a Rashomon-style murder mystery, with the story told three times, each from the perspective of a different character: a woman who is seduced and then murdered; her killer (whose p.o.v. is descibed as that of "the self-centered, sex-ridden pride of the all-conquering male"); and finally as revealed to the police superintendent who investigates the murder. The author adopts a different narrative voice for each section of the book...
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