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...night of the murder and thus was unable to identify the murderer correctly. Taking the stand in his own behalf. Hanratty said that he had spent the night of the murder alone in a rooming house near Liverpool. He remembered that the house had a green bath in the attic, but he had not signed the guest register and could find no witness who could positively remember having seen him there. On his way to Liverpool, Hanratty claimed, he had traveled in a train compartment with a man who wore gold cuff links initialed with the letter E. Despite appeals...
...Attic, by Richard Hughes. A trenchant novel about Europe's sickness between two World Wars, contrasting a victorious England in need of no new God with a defeated Germany in search of the sinister old warrior-deities...
...Attic, by Richard Hughes. A trenchant parable of Europe's sickness between two World Wars, contrasting a victorious England in need of no new God with a defeated Germany in search of the sinister old warrior-deities...
...artist's power of recording the past as if it were the living present. His method is that of creating a system of related microcosms (thus saving nine-tenths of the wordage of the usual novel of public events). In the German half of The Fox in the Attic, the microcosm is the family of Augustine's baronial kin, who live in a huge old castle near Munich...
...wall. Uncle Otto broods about the defeat of the German army and the insolence of the Red militiamen roaming the Ruhr. His young cousin Franz speculates on the nature of politics and violence with a mystical intensity that shocks the rationalistic Englishman. There is a pet fox in the attic. Also in the attic, though Augustine does not know it, is a young, half-crazed fanatic sought by the police as a member of a proto-Nazi assassin band dedicated to the murder of liberal politicians. This ur-Nazi hangs himself before he can enact his fantasies of "purifying" Germany...