Word: shabbier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempts to be both a novel of character and a novel of suspense, is above average in both categories. The plot: a second-rate novelist begins a mild investigation into the disappearance of an old school chum and gradually finds himself being followed, spied on, threatened with death. The shabbier fringes of London's literary life are convincingly drawn, and the ending is a real shocker...