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Lawrence Todhunter is in search of a victim. After an academic conversation with friends he decides that he is going to commit a murder - and so he does. Todhunter's carefully chosen prey is a glamorous actress and he pulls off the killing with aplomb. When another man is arrested for the crime Todhunter resolves to confess but is staggered when no one believes him. He will have to prove himself guilty... "REVIEW: 'First class reading...the detection is enthralling!' (Times Literary Supplement) AUTHBIO: A journalist as well as a novelist, Anthony Berkeley was a founding member of the Detection Club and one of crime fiction's greatest innovators. He was one of the first to predict the development of the 'psychological' crime novel and he sometimes wrote under the pseudonym of Francis Iles. He wrote twenty-four novels, ten of which feature his amateur detective, Roger Sheringham.
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In Mr Todhunter’s mind strange thoughts were coursing. They continued to course for the next week, becoming stranger and stranger.
It had taken him just three days, spinning it out as long as possible, to make sure that his affairs were in order; and of course they were. After that there had seemed to be nothing to do but sit about and wait and never hurry upstairs. This seemed to Mr Todhunter a morbid as well as a boring business.
It was then that the strange thoughts began first to invade Mr Todhunter’s mind; for after another three days he had decided that he could sit about no longer. He must do something. And something, if possible, out of the ordinary. Mr Todhunter began to feel, not without surprise, that he had really been excessively ordinary all his life, and if this drab record were ever broken now was the time. In fact Mr Todhunter, most conventional of men, began for the first time in his life to experience a strange, unholy urge to do something spectacular, just once, before he passed away.
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