| From the back cover of Fontana Books edition: 'Lew Archer spies on a bizarre game of death... At the back of the house lights blazed and I found myself looking into an ornate room occupied by two people: a squat, over-dressed woman and a young man in the clothes of a hospital orderly. The place was thick with dust, strewn with unwashed dishes, cigarette butts, rotting fruit... it looked like a roman villa liberated by Vandals. Suddenly the door was flung open, revealing a small, thin man wrapped in a robe of red brocaded silk. He held a gun in his hand. 'Now!' he cried with authority. 'Hands on heads - this is it!' He shot the orderly three times, point blank. The orderly lay down on the floor, pillowing his head on an up-flung arm, a faint smile on his face. He shot the woman, who grimaced theatricallay and collapsed on a dusty divan. I had already noticed it was a toy cap-pistol.' |
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