Mystery In Spiderville, EPUB eBook

Mystery In Spiderville EPUB

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Alongside the names of James Hadley Chase and Erle Stanley Gardner we must now add that of John Hartley Williams - though Mystery in Spiderville is no run-of-the-mill hard-boiled thriller.

The décor is by Dali, the plot is a mixture of Breton and Burroughs, and the main character - the protean and unkillable Spider Rembrandt - has six toes, sleeps in a grave and dreams of congress with the pert and playful Reedy Buttons.

Sucked into the vortex of Spider's philandering mind is a narrator - sometimes Spider's adversary, sometimes his victim - who lies upon a bed brooding on the absence of a nameless, brown-haired woman.

He, too, is protean: full of passionate longings and homicidal tendencies.

A surrealist film-noir that blends the forensic with the erotic, the seedy penny-dreadful and the lyric prose-poem, Mystery in Spiderville is one of the strangest, strongest and most arresting fictional debuts in years.

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  • Format:EPUB
  • Pages:192 pages
  • Publisher:Vintage Publishing
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  • ISBN:9781446450956

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  • Format:EPUB
  • Pages:192 pages
  • Publisher:Vintage Publishing
  • Publication Date:
  • ISBN:9781446450956