The Lawyer And The Carpenter
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
A sinister figure broods at the heart of The Lawyer and the Carpenter, a taut crime novel in which two men of entirely different worlds find themselves dangerously entangled in a web of murder and suspicion. Estelle Thompson constructs a gripping mystery that pits professional respectability against working-class grit, as her protagonists are drawn together by a crime neither could have anticipated, in a narrative that crackles with tension from the first page to the last. Thompson, a skilled practitioner of mid-century British crime fiction, brings a sharp psychological eye to the genre, peeling back the veneer of ordinary lives to reveal the darker impulses beneath. Her prose is precise and unsentimental, building an atmosphere of quiet dread that keeps the reader perpetually off-balance. As alliances shift and motives multiply, The Lawyer and the Carpenter poses a question that lingers long after the final revelation: in a world where appearances deceive, how well can anyone truly know another?
Author: Estelle Thompson
Format: Hardback
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
A sinister figure broods at the heart of The Lawyer and the Carpenter, a taut crime novel in which two men of entirely different worlds find themselves dangerously entangled in a web of murder and suspicion. Estelle Thompson constructs a gripping mystery that pits professional respectability against working-class grit, as her protagonists are drawn together by a crime neither could have anticipated, in a narrative that crackles with tension from the first page to the last. Thompson, a skilled practitioner of mid-century British crime fiction, brings a sharp psychological eye to the genre, peeling back the veneer of ordinary lives to reveal the darker impulses beneath. Her prose is precise and unsentimental, building an atmosphere of quiet dread that keeps the reader perpetually off-balance. As alliances shift and motives multiply, The Lawyer and the Carpenter poses a question that lingers long after the final revelation: in a world where appearances deceive, how well can anyone truly know another?