Storyline

Andrew Wyke is a famous and successful author of detective novels. Milo Tindle comes to him with a strange request, that Mr Wyke divorce his wife so that Tindle can marry her. Mr Wyke is not particularly perturbed by this, he and his wife have drifted apart, and he is having an affair with another woman anyway, but uses the meeting and Mr Tindle's request as a chance to play a game, a game with potentially deadly consequences.

Plot Keywords

battle of wits, suspense, surprise ending, mansion, love triangle, investigator, insurance fraud, infidelity, impotence, firearm, extramarital affair, upper class, toy, social climber, scheme, rich snob, psychological torment, pride, portrait, police detective

Short Review

This is a fastidious, acrobatically cunning and invigoratingly well-acted thriller.

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