The Colour of Murder (British Library Crime Classics)
by:
Julian Symons (author)
‘One of our most ingenious and stylish home-grown crime novelists’ – Spectator ‘A book to delight every puzzle-suspense enthusiast’ – New York Times John Wilkins meets a beautiful, irresistible girl, and his world is turned upside down. Looking at his wife, and thinking of the girl,...
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‘One of our most ingenious and stylish home-grown crime novelists’
– Spectator
‘A book to delight every puzzle-suspense enthusiast’ – New York Times
John Wilkins meets a beautiful, irresistible girl, and his world is turned upside down. Looking at his wife, and thinking of the girl, everything turns red before his eyes – the colour of murder.
But did he really commit the heinous crime he was accused of? Told innovatively in two parts: the psychiatric assessment of Wilkins and the trial for suspected murder on the Brighton seafront, Symons’ award-winning mystery tantalizes the reader with glimpses of the elusive truth and makes a daring exploration of the nature of justice itself.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B07H395Z2W
Publish date: 2018-09-10
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Series: British Library Crime Classics
This was a very quick read - I think it took me about 2 hours from start to finish. The format is interesting. The first 50% or so of the book is a first-person narration by the suspect to a psychologist. There is a lot of psychology to unpack in this section, with a main character who develops a ...
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