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Plot / Content: Rating: N "All around him Augustine Hatley stirred up hatred. Apparently rich, apparently respectable, he relished hatred, dissension and discord. His country home, Mizmaze, was a miserable maze of malice. Near the centre of the domain lay an ancient yew maze, which only he and his two daughters (Goneril and Reagan perhaps) could thread. At the centre of the maze lay a sundial and a patch of turf. By the sundial lay a body - the corpse of Augustine Hatley himself, briskly clouted over the head with a wooden mallet." "At this point Inspector Mallet and Dr Fitzbrown take over and strive, like Theseus, to trace the Minotaur through a labyrinth of lies, with little enough help from Ariadne. Or is it Theseus himself that they should be after...? Mary Fitt's characters are not nice, but they are consistent in their iniquity." (from the cover) Background / Biography: "The authoress who wrote under the name of Mary Fitt died in the spring of 1959. She was reluctant to give much information about herself, but on one occasion she wrote: 'It was the vast and pleasant study of mankind that set my feet on the roads he had travelled and sent me to the places where he has resided. So it has not been by chance that the journey that begin in Paris should have taken me, over the years, to the other European capitals: to Rome and Berlin, Madrid and Istanbul, Athens and Budapest; that it should have taken me not only cruising past Stromboli on a summer night but also to spend long summer days in the Arctic Circle.' ... Books of hers which appeared as Penguins were Death and Mary Dazill, Death and the Pleasant Voices, Death on Heron's Mere, Requiem for Robert, The Three Hunting Horns and Three Sisters Flew Home." (from inside front cover) Reviews: "A cleverly entangled thriller, enhanced by polished writing." News Chronicle (from the cover) Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
" Everybody agreed that whoever had been responsible for naming the sisters Hatley had been gifted with a sort of precognition and had acted out of malice. Alethea, as all her friends her knew, was a stranger to the truth, and Angela could be, in spite of her long golden hair, a perfect devil." Secondhand booksellers |
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