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Midnight Hag
There was no nonsense about old Mr. Cumlock in that when he decided to die, he died, maliciously leaving his fortune to a son, as an act of revenge.
I can't live without a woman ... and I can't live with one, his heir, Valentine Belmont, an artist, was to complain and it was this complication that had dogged him throughout his life and was to bring everything tumbling about him in a blaze of disorder and misrule.
The events in his life had a fearful symmetry, enacted by falling star light.
The story is full of movement and excitement. Joan Fleming is celecrated for her fluent and witty prose, and for her characters, who are both surprising and convincing. She is at the top of her form here in this entrhalling new novel.
I can't live without a woman ... and I can't live with one, his heir, Valentine Belmont, an artist, was to complain and it was this complication that had dogged him throughout his life and was to bring everything tumbling about him in a blaze of disorder and misrule.
The events in his life had a fearful symmetry, enacted by falling star light.
The story is full of movement and excitement. Joan Fleming is celecrated for her fluent and witty prose, and for her characters, who are both surprising and convincing. She is at the top of her form here in this entrhalling new novel.
255 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1966
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About the author
Joan Fleming
65 books4 followersJoan Margaret Fleming was a British writer of crime and thriller novels. She was educated at Lausanne University.
She married Norman Bell Beattie Fleming in 1932. The Turkish detective Nuri Bey Izkirlak features in two of her books, 'When I Grow Rich and 'Nothing is the Number When You Die'.
Her novel 'The Deeds of Dr Deadcert' was made into a film 'RX Murder'. She won the Gold Dagger award twice, for 'When I Grow Rich' in 1962 and for 'Young Man I Think You're Dying' in 1970.
She wrote 33 novels beginning with 'Two Lovers Too Many' in 1949 and ending with 'The Day of the Donkey Derby' in 1978.
She married Norman Bell Beattie Fleming in 1932. The Turkish detective Nuri Bey Izkirlak features in two of her books, 'When I Grow Rich and 'Nothing is the Number When You Die'.
Her novel 'The Deeds of Dr Deadcert' was made into a film 'RX Murder'. She won the Gold Dagger award twice, for 'When I Grow Rich' in 1962 and for 'Young Man I Think You're Dying' in 1970.
She wrote 33 novels beginning with 'Two Lovers Too Many' in 1949 and ending with 'The Day of the Donkey Derby' in 1978.
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August 20, 2019
Read in Danish.
March 6, 2014
"I am going to die the day after tomorrow," Mr Cumlock said, "I feel it in my bones."
I cannot get the picture of Nurse Gladys Emmanuel out of my mind when reading about Sister Cramp, and that is not a bad thing at all.
Page 208 - Sister was desperate; it was the wrong time of the year, the No month, November, a time when everything was at its lowest ebb: 'no sun - no moon! no morn - no noon!' as Tom Hood said, no time to rush around hopefully, playing the detective.
End line - She did not seem to hear.
I cannot get the picture of Nurse Gladys Emmanuel out of my mind when reading about Sister Cramp, and that is not a bad thing at all.
Page 208 - Sister was desperate; it was the wrong time of the year, the No month, November, a time when everything was at its lowest ebb: 'no sun - no moon! no morn - no noon!' as Tom Hood said, no time to rush around hopefully, playing the detective.
End line - She did not seem to hear.
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May 5, 2011
A haunting tale of murder and deceit that has the reader wondering right through to the final page.
Convincing characters, pleasant setting and a jolly good read.
Convincing characters, pleasant setting and a jolly good read.
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