DECEPTIVE MOTIVES: A Symptom of DeliriumWith an opening chapter that highlights the duplicity of a husband towards his wife, this tragicomic novel builds on the marital dissatisfactions and grudges of its principal heroine, Julie Foster, and couples them to the literary and social dissatisfactions, grudges, etc., of a certain Peter Morrison, an unpublished and seemingly unpublishable writer, as the two bump into each other in a restaurant, after many years, and Julie agrees to accompany Morrison back to his squalid flat, where things are set in motion that will subsequently lead to tragedy for her and infamy for him. – A Centretruths editorial |
Contents
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16 | |
MIND OF AN OUTSIDER | 33 |
CONVERSATION WITH A FRIEND | 59 |
A FATAL SLIP | 67 |
ANXIOUS HUSBAND | 87 |
DISPOSAL OF THE EVIDENCE | 95 |
ON MORRISONS TRAIL | 108 |
A MOST UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY | 115 |
ENCOUNTER WITH DESTINY | 134 |
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