The Man with Two Shadows

by Robin Maugham

A very good hardcover copy. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages. Good jacket in removable mylar; price-clipped; light fading, smudging, and tape-repaired chipping. NOT ex-library. 165pg. Shipped Under 1 kilogram. Fiction; Inventory 018936.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1958

Reviews

[Aiabata Seiya · Rating 5 out of 5]

1.PENGUIN READERS level 3
2. 90 min
3. scared strange man rich dead offer marriage
4. Do you like strange story?
Yes, I do.
5 this book is composed of five parts. All of story was really scary and interesting.
This book isn’t horror but mystery. It took me for a long time to solve some problem, but it was very good book. That’s why I gave this book five stars.

[CQM · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maugham packs a lot into his short novel about a travel writer/spy.
While it is a spy novel and thriller, it is also a psychological study. We catch glimpses of our protagonists' childhood and war service, both of which contribute to his split personality.
I'm a little bit in awe of how Maugham, with apparent ease, fits so much into 124 pages.

[ingrid · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book a bit confusing but it was still a good thriller/adventure story. It took me a while to figure out the narrator had a"dissociative personality disorder" which was the explanation for two "different" people doing counter-productive things. The narrator is a journalist/sometimes spy. He had a serious head injury in WW2.