Time Right Deadly

by Sarah Gainham

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1956

About the author

Rachel Stainer was a much-admired foreign correspondent for the "Spectator" magazine reporting from Vienna, Berlin, Bonn and Trieste. She wrote novels under the pseudonym Sarah Gainham most notably her 1967 novel "Night Falls on the City," the first of a trilogy about life in Vienna under Nazi rule.

Reviews

[Josh · Rating 4 out of 5]

A mystery novel evoking The Third Man; the whodunit is not as interesting as the novel's exploration of corruption, even among the British colony in occupied Vienna. The ending is a bit of a let-down; Gainham seems to think it is more romantic than it really is.

[Jack Heath]

Synopsis: set in Austria just after WW2 when it was under occupation. Julian Dryden is murdered; what does it have to do with anything?