Los Angeles Times Book Review critic Charles Champlin
found this novel cleverly plotted, and suggested that Alfred Hitchcock
might have appreciated the way RR
knots the various strands of her story.
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Literary responses
Ruth Rendell
Critic Joyce Slater
of the Chicago Tribune noted that RR
makes irrational behaviour absolutely plausible in this novel. This plausibility, she argues, accounts for its success and the fact that many find it RR's best...
Literary responses
Olivia Manning
Reviewers, with a sense that they were summing up a lifetime of work, moved vigorously into either celebration or debunking. Jonah Jones
in the Times judged that this last novel indicated that OM
's reputation...
