SOMEONE FROM THE PAST

Margot BENNETT

ISBN 10: 0712354735 / ISBN 13: 9780712354738

Published by British Library, United Kingdom, 2023

About this Item

This is a first printing of the British Library re-issue B format paperback (130 x 198 mm). Introduction by Martin Edwards. The title was originally published in 1958 by Eyre & Spottiswoode. Read once very carefully.

SYNOPSIS: "Sarah has been receiving threatening anonymous letters, seemingly from a former lover. Just one day after revealing this information to her co-worker, Nancy, Sarah is found shot in her bedroom by one of her past flames, Donald. Hearing the news and desperate to clear any evidence of Donald's presence at the scene due to her own infatuations, Nancy finds herself as the key suspect when she is discovered in the apartment. A situation the killer uses to their advantage."

Packed weight 430 gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SOMEONE FROM THE PAST
• Publisher: British Library, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0712354735
• ISBN 13: 9780712354738
• Binding: Softback
• Edition: Re-issue.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No dustjacket
• Weight: 430 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Then I felt his warm hand grow cold, it was as if he had been reminded of death. He wasn’t looking at me any more, but obliquely, across the restaurant. I turned round.’

Sarah has been receiving threatening anonymous letters, seemingly from a former lover. Just one day after revealing this information to her co-worker Nancy, Sarah is found shot in her bedroom by one of her past flames, Donald. Hearing the news and desperate to clear any evidence of Donald’s presence at the scene due to her own infatuations, Nancy finds herself as the key suspect when she is discovered in the apartment.

As the real killer uses the situation to their advantage, Bennett crafts a tense and nuanced story through flashbacks to Sarah’s life and loves in this Gold-Dagger-award-winning, Hitchcockian story of deceit and murder.

About the Author

Margot Bennett (1912–1980) was a Scottish author and screenwriter who penned a small, though influential, number of crime, thriller and science fiction novels. Her novels The Man Who Didn’t Fly and The Widow of Bath have been republished as British Library Crime Classics.