Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 03/11/2011
ISBN: 9780141198101
Length: 192 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 11mm x 129mm
Weight: 145g
RRP: £9.99
Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills, until the combination of a wealthy relative, a bottle of Cyanide and a shovel offer him the perfect solution. In fact, his troubles are only just beginning. Slowly the Marble family becomes poisoned by guilt, and caught in an increasingly dangerous trap of secrets, fear and blackmail. Then, in a final twist of the knife, Mrs Marble ensures that retribution comes in the most unexpected of ways ...
First published in 1926, C. S. Forester's gritty psychological thriller took crime writing in a new direction, portraying ordinary, desperate people committing monstrous acts, and showing events spiralling terribly, chillingly, out of control.
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 03/11/2011
ISBN: 9780141198101
Length: 192 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 11mm x 129mm
Weight: 145g
RRP: £9.99
Compelling
C. S. Forester is a splendid storyteller
I recommend Forester to every literate I know
The unsung godfather of English noir