New release! Long recognized as a gay classic, Robin Maugham's dark tale of lust and blackmail in seedy 1960s Tangier, THE WRONG PEOPLE (1967), is currently being adapted for a major motion picture. (Trivia factoid: Sal Mineo of Rebel Without a Cause planned to make a film version before his untimely death.) The Daily Telegraph called Maugham's novel ‘a very well-told story, every move nicely calculated and undeniably shuddery’, while the Sunday Express said it was ‘a gripping thriller. Storytelling at its best.’
Set against the seedy backdrop of 1960s Tangier, The Wrong People (1967) is the story of Arnold Turner, a repressed English schoolmaster on holiday in Morocco, where he meets Ewing Baird, a wealthy American expat with a dark secret. Ewing lavishly entertains him and even provides him with a young lover, but as Arnold becomes more and more involved with Ewing he realizes only too late that he has been lured into a dangerous trap – and his only chance of escape is by helping Ewing to carry out a sinister plan.
The Wrong People (1967) by Robin Maugham, with a new foreword by Maugham’s longtime partner William Lawrence
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Set against the seedy backdrop of 1960s Tangier, The Wrong People (1967) is the story of Arnold Turner, a repressed English schoolmaster on holiday in Morocco, where he meets Ewing Baird, a wealthy American expat with a dark secret. Ewing lavishly entertains him and even provides him with a young lover, but as Arnold becomes more and more involved with Ewing he realizes only too late that he has been lured into a dangerous trap – and his only chance of escape is by helping Ewing to carry out a sinister plan.
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