Comments | gervase_fen: Disordered Daggers : The Second Man by Edward Grierson (1956)

gervase_fen

Disordered Daggers : The Second Man by Edward Grierson (1956)

May 23, 2016 01:48

( Slowly, with a perfect economy, she drove the witness to the wall. At first he was unwisely contemptuous of her and showed it. It did him no good. He was sarcastic; he scored; and his scores rebounded. She turned his words. She held them up; comparing them, and presented them to him again; and got fresh answers and played with these. I have never heard a witness so condemned out of his own mouth. Yet at the end she was still treating him in the same way; as though she trusted him and expected the truth and found herself bewildered by the lies that came up like changelings. )

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parrot_knight May 23 2016, 01:45:11 UTC

There's only one UK edition, the first, known to the Bodleian - but if there are any particular rewrites you'd like me to look into, I can oblige (and have ordered the book up already).

gervase_fen May 23 2016, 14:52:18 UTC

That would be fascinating. I will e-mail details of where the road house popped up in the book to you! I suppose the Harper & Row house style at the time superceded the common sense idea that any readers following the intricacies of English criminal proceedings would probably know what a pub was.