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Somebody at the Door is compounded of the stories of the people involved in the murder - Grayling, the murdered man, over 50, grey-eyed, thin, inquisitorial, cold, churchwarden, town councilor, Home Guardsman, petty grafter, a tyrant to his young and pretty wife; Renata, 38, brown-haired, self-seeking, moodily vengeful; Ransom, pickpocket, fugitive, a World War I veteran recovering his self-respect in the Battle of Britain; Mannheim, a German refugee chemist, possibly a spy, square, dark, smuggled out of Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After the Finer Hour | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

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