One last book by Nicholas Blake--found at the Lifeline Bookfair:
Charles Hammer was ruthless ; he needed money quickly and he would get it if a certain person died. When he met Ned Stowe he saw how he could commit the perfect murder.
Ned was by no means ruthless--but he was desperate. Passionately in love with Laura, he was tied to a neurotic, clinging wife. He sometimes felt he'd do anything to get rid of her.
Hammer proposes a contract. As it works out it binds the two men together in a terrible grip which only death can relax.
If this plot seems familiar, it is. Patricia Highsmith told the same basic story in
Strangers on a Train (1950). (Of course Blake denied having read
Strangers on a Train, or having seen the Hitchcock movie of the same name!)
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