From the back cover of Pan Books edition:
''His hands
swung together, reaching for my throat...'
A wild-eyed, pre-breakfast client was the last thing Lew Archer wanted that morning - least of all a client who has just escaped from a mental home - and who acted like a killer.
But was his story just
crazy talk?
Archer decides to find out - and plunges into an ugly mixture of murder and madness.' | 
The
Doomsters
Pan Books edition,1960.
|
Trivia:
The title
of the book comes from a poem by Thomas Hardy, 'To an Unborn Pauper Child'.
Millar said about Archer in 1970: 'It took him a while to develop into anything substantial. The real change in him, I think, occured in The Doomsters; he became
a man who was not so much trying to find the criminal as understand him. He became more of a representative of a man rather than just a detective who finds things out.' |