Payment Deferred (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Forester, C.S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141198109 ISBN 13: 9780141198101

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2011

Synopsis

Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills, until the combination of a wealthy relative, a bottle of Cyanide and a shovel offer him the perfect solution. In fact, his troubles are only just beginning. Slowly the Marble family becomes poisoned by guilt, and caught in an increasingly dangerous trap of secrets, fear and blackmail. Then, in a final twist of the knife, Mrs Marble ensures that retribution comes in the most unexpected of ways ...

First published in 1926, C. S. Forester's gritty psychological thriller took crime writing in a new direction, portraying ordinary, desperate people committing monstrous acts, and showing events spiralling terribly, chillingly, out of control.

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Review:

Compelling (Sunday Times)

C. S. Forester is a splendid storyteller (Guardian)

I recommend Forester to every literate I know (Ernest Hemingway)

The unsung godfather of English noir (Andrew Taylor)

About the Author:

Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 - 2 April 1966), an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston). His novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. He began his career with the crime novels Payment Deferred and Plain Murder, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics along with The Pursued, which was lost for over 60 years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0141198109
• ISBN 13: 9780141198101
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192