Word: croxburn
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...Croxburn was a bleak London suburb made bleaker by the Blitz. Its people-many of them - were phlegmatic busybodies made vicious by the strain of war. In the cold winter of 1942, with the side walks filmed with ice, weary infidelities in the cold houses, grafting in the desultory municipal government, train service rotten and winter colds everywhere, murder was possible. In Croxburn it happened...
Whatever new was to come out of it had not appeared; the wreckage laid bare its old animosities and sins. The major criticism of Raymond Postgate's thriller is that if Croxburn is a representative English village, something is wrong with the U.S. picture of England, for these people could not stand up against anything, let alone the Luftwaffe...
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