Set against the seedy backdrop of 1960s Tangier, The Wrong People (1967) is the story of Arnold Turner, a repressed English schoolmaster on holiday in Morocco, where he meets Ewing Baird, a wealthy American expat with a dark secret. Ewing lavishly entertains him and even provides him with a young lover, but as Arnold becomes more and more involved with Ewing he realizes only too late that he has been lured into a dangerous trap â and his only chance of escape is by helping Ewing to carry out a sinister plan.
Drawing in part on the authorâs real-life efforts to expose the African sex trafficking trade, Robin Maughamâs first explicitly gay-themed novel was both a critical and a commercial success, being reprinted several times â including in the important Gay Modern Classics series â and was optioned for a film version by Sal Mineo (Rebel Without a Cause). This edition includes a new foreword by Maughamâs longtime partner William Lawrence.
âI can only think of a handful of novelists who can play the reader like a hooked fish with comparable ingenuity and suppleness.â â Francis King, Sunday Telegraph
âA very well-told story, every move nicely calculated and undeniably shuddery.â â Daily Telegraph
âA gripping thriller. Storytelling at its best.â â Sunday Express
Categories:
- Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
- Thrillers & Suspense
- Suspense
- Thrillers & Suspense
Publisher : Valancourt Books
Author : Maugham, Robin
Language : English
Published :2019-09-03
Number Of Pages : 196
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 1948405261
ISBN-13 : 9781948405263
Item weight : 0.49 lb
Dimensions : 0.5 in x 5 in x 7.91 in
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