Status Updates From The Schoolgirl Murder Case

I like it. If it does get offensive, I think I know what the insensitive, of-the-period stereotyping is going to be, which group or groups will be maligned. I dunno; we’ll see. It’s a 1974 British Crime novel dealing, in part, with sex crimes. Meanwhile, it seems there is a strange coincidence, me going to this book right after The Iron Dream…

My 'Stuck in the Seventies' reading project continues...I suspect this will be bleak, and cold, and typical of that 70s insensitivity I have come to know so well. Harsh edges - maybe even 'has not aged well' to the max. It's from Colin Wilson, so there's that, too. If I'm lucky, I get a good Crime novel attached to whatever else is going on.

I'm only halfway through it but boy, this is rough going. It's basically a seventies detective story with a sex magic theme. Told chronologically only from only the viewpoint of the detective. So far fairly disappointing and definitely not among Wilson's best - although I may change my mind. I use only for bedtime reading and as such I guess it's proving some value ;-)