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Before the Fact

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'Some women give birth to murderers, some go to bed with them, and some marry them. Lina Aysgarth had lived with her husband for nearly eight years before she realized that she was married to a murderer.'Following the success of Malice Aforethought, novelist Anthony Berkeley Cox returned to his Francis Iles pen-name for another experiment in the inverted mystery. Where Malice Aforethought is a study of murder from the perpetrator's perspective, Before the Fact is a masterful tale of the suspicions of a possible victim and her impressions of disquieting husband Johnnie.Unsettling and gripping for its incisive portrayal of human emotion and fears, this experimental classic of crime fiction was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's film Suspicion, but remains an arresting literary read today.

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Authors Anthony Berkeley, Frances Iles, Francis Iles, Iles Francis
Assisted by Martin Edwards (Introduction)
Publisher British Library
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 01.06.2024
 
EAN 9780712355506
ISBN 978-0-7123-5550-6
No. of pages 301
Dimensions 130 mm x 190 mm x 23 mm
Series British Library Crime Classics
Subjects Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage

FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, Classic crime, Classic crime and mystery fiction

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