Word: sleuth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Credibility does not really count in Sleufh, by Anthony Shaffer, a television and movie writer who has sometimes collaborated with Brother Peter on detective novels. Sleuth reflects no real world, only the glints of its own inner harmonies. It is all a diabolical plot, and the first to be overthrown by it are the reviewers, for there is no way to describe it without giving away its secrets. It can only be said that its protagonist, a successful whodunit writer named Andrew Wyke (Anthony Quayle), is a witty snob who is inwardly delighted when a would-be lover makes...
...Peter Shaffer's reach exceeds his grasp in Shrivings, Anthony Shaffer's grasp is so sure in Sleuth that the playgoer may well wish he had reached farther. In fact, it is tempting to find a moral in this-but drawing morals can be too facile a game...