Word: dauntsey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peverell name, will permit the sale of the Press only over her dead body--or Gerard's. James deWitt, fiction editor, may be willing to help Frances. Claudia Etienne, Gerard's sister, needs money her brother controls to satisfy the "boy toy" she wants to marry. Gabriel Dauntsey, poet and poetry editor, faces eviction from his home of thirty years if Gerard lives. Other dubious characters include Esme Carling, a rejected writer, Miss Blackett, an ill-treated secretary, and Sydney Bartrum, a desperate accountant...
Frances Peverell, a figure of "gentle, old-fashioned formality," lives a flight of stairs away from the equally reserved Gabriel Dauntsey. They see "less of each other than if they had lived miles apart." Dalgleish recognizes Jean-Philippe Etienne, Gerard's father, as the "true recluse" he himself sometimes shows signs of becoming. Isolation in the wake of death is more than poignant, and the abandoned homes of the murder victims, as James describes them, provide the most eloquent counterpoint to living loneliness...
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