THE MASTER ECCENTRIC The Journals of Rayner Heppenstall 1969-1981

Author: Goodman (Jonathan) Ed. by:
Year: 1986
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Signed by the author
Edition Details: 1st Edn.
Book Condition: F/F
ISBN: 9780850315363
Price: £10.00
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Hardback. PRESENTATION COPY. Rayner Heppenstall (1911-1981) was simultaneously novelist, critic, poet, translator, criminal historian, playwright, publisher's reader, radio producer, obituarist and diarist. Beginning in 1969 and covering the last 12yrs of his life, the journals are quirky, highly original and disturbing. Anniversaries of murder cases and the deaths of the famous are recorded, frequently triggering a pointed reminiscence. Frequently the clinical expression of the criminal historian and the imagination of the writer fuse, producing a hair-raising, dead-pan humour; a creative double vision that stayed with this sharp-witted, sharp-tongued, bloody-minded writer to the last. With Bibliog. and Index. 278pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE EDITOR TO HIS GOOD FRIEND, WILF GREGG. F. in F. pcdw.

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