The Big Clock
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781854800428 (1854800426)
Publish date: November 1st 1990
Publisher: Xanadu Publications
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
The big clock of the title is our seemingly inevitable fate; time marching on relentlessly towards our end, and this also sums up the predicament the protagonist feels in this story of a man investigating himself for a murder he didn’t commit. The lovely Pauline Delos has been murdered by her boyf...
Actually more like 3.5 stars. Due to it's awesome concept, I had great expectations for this short novel. The plot is tailor-made for a great noir. After George Shroud, a crime magazine editor, has a night-long fling with the bosses girlfriend, she ends up with her skull bashed in. His boss is deter...
When Raymond Chandler says that a noir crime book is as good or better than his own, I want to believe it. I'm not sure why he said it, but it certainly wasn't true for me. Maybe he inflated my expectations. The set-up is good: George Stroud is a philanderer and heavy drinker and he doesn't seem to ...
Save for sputtering out at the ending, this would have been a terrific noir. It seems George would still have some 'splaining to do to the NYPD and their investigation. Still, a delicious read for most of its brief length.
i have admired the john farrow film adaptation of this book for a long time, and i have to say it probably clouded my enjoyment of the novel though i love the conceit of george stroud's dilemma his story, above all. the big clock is an extended metaphor throughout the novel, of business and society ...
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