It\u2019s certainly her most sharply focused. Alarmed that a series of anonymous threats she\u2019s been receiving have escalated, London magazine editor Sarah Lampson asks Nancy Graham, her old roommate and colleague at Diagonal Press, to help figure out which of her former lovers is intent on killing her. But it\u2019s already too late, for one of the candidates, artist Donald Spencer, reports to Nancy the next morning that Sarah\u2019s dead in her bed. Determined to make sure the police don\u2019t suspect Donald, who\u2019s become her own boyfriend, Nancy hurries over to Sarah\u2019s place and methodically cleans up every trace of evidence that points to Donald\u2019s presence there. Unfortunately, her conscientious labors only ensure that she\u2019s taken in for questioning by Detective Inspector Crewe. Despite her salt-and-pepper relationship with Sarah, Nancy is a highly sympathetic narrator, but Crewe is one sharp cookie, and he soon catches her in the first of many misstatements. When Nancy meets with the other suspects\u2014Peter Abbott, a crook who was Sarah\u2019s first love; Laurence Hopkins, features editor at another Diagonal magazine; and stage actor Michael Fenby, whose divorce from Sarah has just become final\u2014the dialogue is so brittle and charged with recriminations that readers may wonder if the whole story is one round robin of interrogations. Continuing to stretch the truth to Crewe and everyone else, Nancy ultimately digs herself in so deep that Crewe brands her \u201cthe worst liar in the business.\u201d She certainly is one of the most entertaining.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s certainly her most sharply focused. Alarmed that a series of anonymous threats she\u2019s been receiving have escalated, London magazine editor Sarah Lampson asks Nancy Graham, her old roommate and colleague at Diagonal Press, to help figure out which of her former lovers is intent on killing her. But it\u2019s already too late, for one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}