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Narrated by:
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Peter Wickham
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By:
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Julian Symons
About this listen
John Wilkins meets a beautiful, irresistible girl, and his world is turned upside down. Looking at his wife, and thinking of the girl, everything turns red before his eyes - the colour of murder. But did he really commit the heinous crime he was accused of?
Told innovatively in two parts: the psychiatric assessment of Wilkins and the trial for suspected murder on the Brighton seafront, this award-winning crime novel from 1957 is a gripping examination of the psychology of murder and the nature of justice, unravelling the mystery by showing the events leading up to a murder and the psychiatric evaluation which follows.
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- Blue sky
- 04-18-23
it was okay
I prefer police procederuals from this Era like "Last Seen Wearing" --unfortunately not on audio
this was an okay account of a murder
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