Half Moon Street

I've been very lucky during Covid-19 staying at home. I had/have huge piles of books, and so now is the time to be reading them. Half Moon Street is another book where I have had personal experience...I stayed in a hotel on Half Moon Street back in the 60s. So I kept flashing on the room there while......more

How very odd. The book is two novellas, "Dr. Slaughter" and "Dr. DeMarr," one set in London and the other on Cape Cod and Boston. I preferred "Dr. Slaughter" but that might have been a function of the narration (I listed to them in the car). Both worth the time, though. I'm not a big fan of the auth......more

Two short novels, unrelated except in theme: a damaged person, living precariously, takes a wild chance on a kind of double life, and thinking they are in control, come to learn that they have only undone themselves. In Doctor Slaughter, an academic in London becomes a high-end escort, and soon find......more

Read this long ago, but it has stayed with me like a really good meal eaten outdoors in a foreign city, by water, lanterns swaying, and flirting with a near stranger. Sexy, exotic, intriguing. Greenian, but lacks the bottom note of Greene. Oh well. A great read.......more

The second story's a bust, but "Dr. Slaughter" is twisted in all the right ways. You'll want to take a shower after reading it. Made into a strangely inert movie version starring Sigourney Weaver.......more