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Colour of Murder
Colour of Murder | Julian Symons
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Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder'One of our most ingenious and stylish home-grown crime novelists' --Spectator'A book to delight every puzzle-suspense enthusiast' --New York TimesJohn Wilkins meets a beautiful, irresistible girl, and his world is turned upside down. Looking at his wife, and thinking of the girl, everything turns red before his eyes--the colour of murder.But did he really commit the heinous crime he was accused of? Told innovatively in two parts: the psychiatric assessment of Wilkins and the trial for suspected murder on the Brighton seafront, Symons' award-winning mystery tantalizes the reader with glimpses of the elusive truth and makes a daring exploration of the nature of justice itself.
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LeahBergen
The Colour Of Murder | Julian Symons
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I‘m just starting this 1957 British Library Crime Classic and I‘ve heard it‘s best to go in without reading too many blurbs, etc (I‘ve skipped the intro for now!). I‘m only two chapters in and the narrator is already maliciously creepy. I‘m hooked!

@vivastory This is the one I mentioned in your last comment. 😊

vivastory Maliciously creepy! Say no more. Stacked! 1y
batsy What @vivastory said! 1y
charl08 Wow, what a gorgeous cover. 😍 1y
Tamra Oh fun! 🥺 1y
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rabbitprincess
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Another solid addition to the British Library Crime Classics lineup. The narrative device of having the accused give a statement in his own words is interesting and feels rather modern for a BLCC book. Worth picking up.

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It‘s quite hard to talk about this book because it would be easy to say too much, but I don‘t think it‘s giving away a lot to say that John is a massively unlikeable man. He‘s unhappy in almost every part of his life, but you don‘t really feel much sympathy for his because he‘s so awful even in his own words. I absolutely raced through this, it‘s not long but it‘s also a massive page-turner.

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Current crime read!

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