Taking us into a 1930s London of grimy back streets, smoky cafes
and shabby rooms, Plain Murder, C. S. Forester's second crime
novel, is a brilliantly atmospheric and gripping portrayal of the
dark heart of a killer, published in Penguin Modern Classics.
'They'll get you for certain,' said Oldroyd. 'Then they'll hang
you.' At the Universal Advertising Agency on the Strand, London, a
murder is being planned. Three men have been discovered taking
bribes and face the grim prospect of the dole queue, unless they
can get rid of the person who caught them. Their ringleader,
thick-set and vicious Mr Morris, soon discovers that killing is far
easier than he thought - and that he even has a talent for it. He
might, he feels, be superhuman. But as he will discover, there is
no such thing as the perfect crime, and no deed goes unpunished.
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (1899-1966), better known by his pen
name Cecil Scott Forester, was an English novelist who rose to fame
with tales of naval warfare. His most notable works were the
11-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer
during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in
1951 by John Huston). His novels A Ship of the Line and Flying
Colours were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial
Prize for fiction. He began his career with the crime novels
Payment Deferred and Plain Murder, now reissued in Penguin Modern
Classics along with The Pursued, which was lost for over 60 years.
If you enjoyed Plain Murder, you might like Forester's Payment
Deferred, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'A terrible
and striking piece of work' Observer
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