Her plot, however, which is revealed in stages by four principal characters, is just a little too simple to justify the labyrinthine processes of its disclosure, and most readers will solve its few mysteries well before the last character has had his say.
Books A Case of Knives
- Author
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Candia McWilliam
- Year
- 1988
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
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…a dazzling, burnished, stilt-walking stylistic exercise, like that of a very clever student who had been nourished on a forced diet of John Cleveland, George Barker (The Dead Seagull) and Craig Raine, and who had once heard the plot of a novel by Iris Murdoch.
A Case of Knives
A Little Stranger
Debatable Land