- Paperback: 184 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; New Ed edition (12 Sep 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006479685
- ISBN-13: 978-0006479680
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 937,441 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Synopsis
When Clifford Benbow paid a bargee to kill his wife's lover, he did not allow for the hit-man's inexperience precipitating a murder inquiry. The grim landscape of the industrialized Midlands of the 1930s reflects a grimmer justice in this first novel.
About the Author
David Armstrong was born in Birmingham in 1946. After leaving school at fifteen, he worked as a salesman, building labourer and lorry-driver, and sold books to the British Forces in Germany. In 1974, after taking an English degree at the University of Wales, Cardiff, he began teaching at a college of further education in Shropshire. He has two grown-up children and lives in the Welsh Borders. ‘Thought for the Day’ is his fourth novel.
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It grabs you from the first page - the eerie setting of the midland canal system in the thirties, when much of the countrie's transport was carried out on the extensive system of waterways. -
It's not a whodunnit, we watch the crime unfold between the cuckolded landlord of a pub by a canal and the stoic, hard, disappointed from life bargeman Ezra - to kill the love rival for a sum of money.
It seems the perfect crime - the perpetrator and the murderer in spirit being not recognizably connected. But there are random circumstances, and an inspector who has an eye and a mind for them. He is lovingly portrayed, a man who relaxes by hoeing his garden, reading Thomas Hardy and making love to his wife in the middle of the night.
I was drawn in to the story, the era, the hardship and limited lives of the people made very real by precise, sparse prose - reminiscing, like one critic pointed out, of Zola. Brillant read
It's not a whodunnit, we watch the crime unfold between the cuckolded landlord of a pub by a canal and the stoic, hard, disappointed from life bargeman Ezra - to kill the love rival for a sum of money.
It seems the perfect crime - the perpetrator and the murderer in spirit being not recognizably connected. But there are random circumstances, and an inspector who has an eye and a mind for them. He is lovingly portrayed, a man who relaxes by hoeing his garden, reading Thomas Hardy and making love to his wife in the middle of the night.
I was drawn in to the story, the era, the hardship and limited lives of the people made very real by precise, sparse prose - reminiscing, like one critic pointed out, of Zola. Brillant read
I heard about this author from my brother and looked out for his first book. Such a dark thriller written almost in bullet points, half way through I had to go to bed but unable to sleep, finished it. A thoroughly satisfactory ending, the tension doesn't drop for a minute. I look forward to reading the next book 'less than kind'
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