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1926
First Published
3.73
Average Rating
166
Number of Pages
Forester's masterpiece of suspense. A middle-aged bank clerk with a mountain of debt and an extravagant wife commits a murder in secret. Later, a profitable investment brings him a fortune. Hounded by his crime, he suffers an ironic fate in an excellent final twist.
Avg Rating
3.73
Number of Ratings
672
5 STARS
21%
4 STARS
40%
3 STARS
31%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
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Author
C.S. Forester
Author · 46 books
Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of adventure and military crusades. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, about naval warfare 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.
