ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1971
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Douglas Rutherford - Skin for Skin
Fontana, 1971
191 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Last year 46,371 cars were unlawfully taken and driven away in the Metropolitan Police area alone. That represents, on an average, one car theft for every ten minutes of the day.` Linda Campbell was a little too observant for her own good. When a car was stolen from outside the house where she lived, she saw enough to be able to identify the thieves. But the car theft was only the prelude to a much more daring crime. This is the story of that crime, its preparation, its execution and its unpredictable consequences. It is also a brilliant analysis of the effects of tension upon the three main characters— Crispin, the ex-RAF pilot, embittered with society, who believes he has planned the perfect robbery; Jerry, the young accomplice whom Crispin thinks he can mould to his own purposes; and Linda, ihe girl who must be disposed of because she has seen too much. But Linda is no ordinary girl, and it is her effect, different and dangerous, upon each of the two men that precipitates the tragic conclusion. Douglas Rutherford is already well known for his novels with motor-racing and Mediterranean backgrounds. Here for the first time his story is set in England, and in it he achieves a degree of subtlety which, combined with the suspense of a planned crime going wrong, makes this his best novel yet. This is a suspense-packed story with finely-drawn characters, a credible predicament and a totally unexpected ending.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
James Douglas Rutherford McConnell (1914-1988) was a British mystery writer, language teacher and housemaster at Eton College. He was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, and educated in Yorkshire and at Cambridge. He served in the British Army Intelligence Corps in WWII. He taught modern languages at Eton and joined the Detection Club in 1970.
Under his own name he wrote books of language instruction and some volumes about Eton. His mysteries, written on weekends and during school holidays, usually centre around motor racing. Commercial aviation forms the background of The Perilous Sky (1955). Skin for Skin (1968) is about a perfect robbery, planned by a bitter war veteran Crispin. The plan fails. Crispin kidnaps with Jerry, his young helpmate, a girl, Linda Campbell, because she has seen too much. Jerry falls in love with Linda. An unexpected turn in the story is that Crispin loves also Jerry. The Gilt-Edged Cockpit (1969) focuses on rivaling stables of racing cars, the battle on the courses and behind the scenes. The technical depiction of Formula 1 car, Lotus, Ferrari, and others, shows Rutherford`s familiarity with the subject. The story ends in Germany, Nürburgring, where the small English Mascot Motors company wins all Alfa Romeos, Porsches and Ferraris. Clear the Fast Lane (1971) mixes terrorism, Middle East politics and a race against time from London to Saloniki with a super car AC 428.


Fiction, Mystery, Thriller