Fiction of Gay Interest

Victim
William Drummond
Publisher: Corgi / Transworld
London, UK

Year


 		1961 FIRST EDITION       
Cover / size: paperback / h 16.2 cm * w 10.8 cm / 218 pp

Dustjacket?   n/a

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   000263

Condition Good

Edges worn and discoloured, ink inscription on pre-title page, pages discoloured with age, but spine unbroken and book apparently unread.

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Drummond: Victim


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Plot / Content:                              Rating: G

"Who was the master-mind behind a blackmailing racket involving many prominent people? What connection did Jack Barrett, whose body was found hanging in a police cell, have with the case? And what would happen to Melville Carr's hopes of becoming a Q.C. when he revealed that he too was once a homosexual?"

(from the cover)

Book is a tie-in to the film of the same name starring Dirk Bogarde, who at the time was Britain's leading male film star. He and many, if not all, of the other actors and others involved in the film were themselves homosexual, although not openly so for many years. Victim, while being an excellent thriller of the period, was also a conscious attempt to influence public opinion to change British laws that made male homosexual activity a crime. The first change to these laws came in 1967.



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"'I'm not saying that we don't believe you, sir," Harris said. "And yet why was there this scrapbook of clippings about you, the sort of thing . . . if I may say so, a devoted school girl might compile about the man she loved. That leads me to suspect that Barrett had feelings for you, far deeper than you ever imagined, and of course quite different from those you may have had for him.'

 'I think he did.' Carr, now in full control of his emotions, realised how careful Harris was being to steer clear of any imputations against himself. 'I didn't realise it. But I think he must have done. Of courst that doesn't mean that he was necessarily being blackmailed about me.'"

pp 80 - 81




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