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Payment Deferred | C. S. Forester
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Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills, until the combination of a wealthy relative, a bottle of Cyanide and a shovel offer him the perfect solution. In fact, his troubles are only just beginning. Slowly the Marble family becomes poisoned by guilt, and caught in an increasingly dangerous trap of secrets, fear and blackmail. Then, in a final twist of the knife, Mrs Marble ensures that retribution comes in the most unexpected of ways ... First published in 1926, C. S. Forester's gritty psychological thriller took crime writing in a new direction, portraying ordinary, desperate people committing monstrous acts, and showing events spiralling terribly, chillingly, out of control.
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Payment Deferred | C. S. Forester

This is my current read on Serial Reader, and I'm not sure I'd keep reading if it weren't for the serial format! The characters are so unpleasant, and the author is so unpleasant about them, e.g. the way it treats Mr Marble's wife, portraying her as very stupid etc etc.