Buy this book on-line SYMONS**, JULIAN: : DEATH'S DARKEST FACELONDON.MACMILLAN,1990. ISBN 0333517830.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner
inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj but a
small diagonal dog-ear crease to bottom inner flap.Pictorial colour illustrated wrap-around dw/d; with minimal shelf-wear,no nicks or tears and miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to head of spine/
backstrip.Top+fore-edge slightly aged as usual/normal,but contents bright,tight and clean.Maroon paper-covered boards with stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-272pp includes b/w line illus title page and b/w line illus chapter head-pieces.
Geoffrey Elder's quest begins when he is told that his father may have been not only an adulterer but also a murderer,and
he sets out to discover the truth.In the sixties Geoffrey is content with his slightly dingy flat,his amiable mistress and his moderately successful acting career,but the quest takes him back to the thirties when he was an idealistic teenager who thought himself in love with Melissa Paton,when the poet Hugo Headley disappeared,and when Geoffrey saw the nightmare scene that changed his life.A richly patterned novel,full of surprises.
Not the least of them is the way in which the mystery is solved,for in the end it is not Geoffrey Elder but Julian Symons himself who reveals the truth about death's darkest face.The action moves from the sixties to the thirties and back again,with glances at the decades in between that include reflections on their changing social mores.There is a puzzle, and one not easy to solve,but the book also charts the loving,yet muted and almost inarticulate, relationship between father and son.This is a mystery story which is also a novel of breadth, ingenuity,elegance and style.
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