High Tide for HangingAt sea, the danger can't be escaped... Classic crime fiction from the 1960s set around a Thames mooring. 'Compton has been one of Britain's most original and consistent novelists since the late Sixties, but he has never received the attention he deserves...Compton's prose is fine-tuned, his human insights sharp, and his narrative pace filled with the weird synchronicities and dissonances of how violent things usually happen' INDEPENDENT |
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