The Counsellor
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Faded and worn black cloth. Bumping on corners and spine. Yellowed pages. Light foxing on book block. Binding slightly shaky. No loose pages. Clean text.
When a seemingly respectable legal counsellor becomes entangled in a web of deceit and crime, J. J. Connington constructs a masterwork of Golden Age detection that grips the reader from the very first page. The Counsellor presents a tightly woven mystery in which the veneer of professional respectability conceals dark secrets, moral compromise, and the ever-present threat of violent consequence — all hallmarks of Connington's assured, methodical approach to the genre. Connington, a Scottish chemist-turned-crime-novelist, was celebrated among his contemporaries for the rigorous, almost scientific logic underpinning his plots, and The Counsellor is no exception. His prose is precise and measured, trusting the reader's intelligence while steadily tightening the narrative vice. Dismissed for a time in favour of more flamboyant Golden Age peers, Connington's reputation has enjoyed a well-deserved reassessment — and this 1939 novel stands as a compelling reminder of why his work demands to be read.
Author: J. J. Connington
Format: Hardback
Published: 1939, Little, Brown and Company
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Faded and worn black cloth. Bumping on corners and spine. Yellowed pages. Light foxing on book block. Binding slightly shaky. No loose pages. Clean text.
When a seemingly respectable legal counsellor becomes entangled in a web of deceit and crime, J. J. Connington constructs a masterwork of Golden Age detection that grips the reader from the very first page. The Counsellor presents a tightly woven mystery in which the veneer of professional respectability conceals dark secrets, moral compromise, and the ever-present threat of violent consequence — all hallmarks of Connington's assured, methodical approach to the genre. Connington, a Scottish chemist-turned-crime-novelist, was celebrated among his contemporaries for the rigorous, almost scientific logic underpinning his plots, and The Counsellor is no exception. His prose is precise and measured, trusting the reader's intelligence while steadily tightening the narrative vice. Dismissed for a time in favour of more flamboyant Golden Age peers, Connington's reputation has enjoyed a well-deserved reassessment — and this 1939 novel stands as a compelling reminder of why his work demands to be read.