"Intelligent psycho-thriller . . . the plot is ingenious, well-turned and never facile. A compulsive damp Saturday afternoon read." - Observer "Literate and enthralling . . . Far beyond the conventional mystery." - Hollywood Reporter "I read with something like fascination this extraordinary book about a multiple murderer who accompanies each corpse with a quotation from Blake." - Guardian "[A] splendid story . . . a gripping thriller about lust and perversion." - Sunday Times (London) A series of brutal and ...
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"Intelligent psycho-thriller . . . the plot is ingenious, well-turned and never facile. A compulsive damp Saturday afternoon read." - Observer "Literate and enthralling . . . Far beyond the conventional mystery." - Hollywood Reporter "I read with something like fascination this extraordinary book about a multiple murderer who accompanies each corpse with a quotation from Blake." - Guardian "[A] splendid story . . . a gripping thriller about lust and perversion." - Sunday Times (London) A series of brutal and bizarre murders has London on edge. Near the dismembered corpse of each victim, the killer has scrawled cryptic quotations from the eighteenth-century mystic poet William Blake. Baffled, the police enlist the aid of Damon Reade, a brilliant but reclusive Blake scholar, who reluctantly agrees to help. Reade's combination of instinctive deduction and psychic penetration leads him to Gaylord Sundheim, who may be the murderer. But when Reade befriends Sundheim and becomes convinced he is incapable of having committed the crimes, is he right and Sundheim innocent? Or is Reade falling into a clever psychopath's deadly trap that could make him the next victim? Colin Wilson (1931-2013) called The Glass Cage (1966) "perhaps my own favourite among my novels". Both a page-turning serial killer mystery and an exploration of Wilson's philosophical ideas, The Glass Cage was praised by critics on its original appearance and remains just as gripping and compulsively readable today. This edition, the first since 1978, includes a new introduction by Geoff Ward.
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New York. 1967. May 1967. Random House. 1st American Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 211 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Roy E. La Grone. keywords: Mystery Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER-A series of brutal and apparently motiveless murders takes place in London, Some of the victims are women, some men. Each of the bodies, or what is left of them, is discovered near the Thames, and in most cases a quotation from Blake's poems is scrawled on a nearby wall, It is this mysterious circumstance that involves Damon Reade in the investigations. Reade, one of the foremost Blake scholars in the country, is consulted by the police. Has he had any correspondence from a knowledgeable but apparently insane Blake enthusiast? Almost against his will, Reade sets off for London to do some private detective work, but not before the reader has learned a great deal about him. Damon Reade is indeed one of Colin Wilson's most successful creations, complex in some ways, simple in others, He lives almost like a hermit in a remote cottage in the Lake District, and he has a deep, fundamental belief in the meaningfulness of life, In some way, he believes, the universe ‘takes account' of the individual; he tries to live by instinct and in the belief that life means well by him, He comes to London and allows himself to be drawn into the promiscuous life of the Notting Hill lodging house where a friend, a philandering composer, finds him a room. While the police try to solve the case by a long process of elimination, Reade uses a combination of instinctive deduction and psychic penetration to lead bum to the murderer; an oddly touching relationship develops between them, which gives THE CLASS CAGE its special flavor, It is Colin Wilson's best novel since RITUAL IN THE DARK. inventory #9528.
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