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The Long Memory
This is the story of revenge.
An innocent man was sent to prison for twenty years. He holds onto his sanity during this terrible span by living for the day he will be free to track down the two people whose testimony had convicted him.
The Long Memory's mood, which builds slowly to almost unbearable suspense, will remind readers of the earlier novels of Graham Greene, whom wrote in a similar vein.
An innocent man was sent to prison for twenty years. He holds onto his sanity during this terrible span by living for the day he will be free to track down the two people whose testimony had convicted him.
The Long Memory's mood, which builds slowly to almost unbearable suspense, will remind readers of the earlier novels of Graham Greene, whom wrote in a similar vein.
253 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1951
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Howard Clewes
22 booksHoward Clewes was an English screenwriter and novelist. He wrote for eight films between 1951 and 1974. He also wrote twenty action novels from 1938 to 1979. He was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Screenplay in 1960 for The Day They Robbed the Bank of England. He was born in York, England.
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February 1, 2026
I didn't think this was particularly good. It's reasonably well-written, and there were moments when it seemed it was going to amount to something, but it never quite "took-off." The somewhat lengthy finale, meant to be suspenseful, was too muddled to have much of an effect as far as I'm concerned.
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