CRIME
The Make-Believe Man. By Elizabeth Fenwick. Gollancz. 183 pp.
The most anxious situation a sane person can be called upon to meet surely must be a sudden and inescapable association with someone who is dangerously mad and yet maintains a facade of normality. This was the dilemma in which Norma Hovic found herself when her mother's ex-lodger called upon her, during her mother’s absence from home, and begged for hospitality. Cliff Wilson, as ordinary seeming as his name, told her a halting story, with sinister undertones, to account for his bashed-up appearance and when she explained that she could not let him stay, quietly abstracted her doorkey. Norma sought the help of her office-boss and the police, and tension mounts as a creepy succession of incidents lead to a terrific climax. The logical thinking of a homicidal maniac on his own crazy lines makes this a brilliant thriller.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30442, 16 May 1964, Page 4
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149CRIME Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30442, 16 May 1964, Page 4
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