The Last Best Friend: A 1960s British Thriller (The Classic Thriller series from the British Library) (British Library Classic Thrillers) - Softcover

Sims, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1464209006 ISBN 13: 9781464209000

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2017

Synopsis

Classic thriller fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder

"Sims takes the reader on a journey to a long-gone world where entire streets of London were devoted to the trade of rare books―items valuable enough to attract the most nefarious of mobsters." ―Publishers Weekly

"The small man standing on the narrow ledge stared fixedly forward with eyes made wide and blank by terror."

At 2pm on a Monday in 1966, Ned Balfour wakes in Corsica beside a beautiful woman.

In the same instant, back in London, fellow art dealer and Dachau survivor Sam Weiss falls ten stories to his death.

Ned refuses to believe that Sam's death was intentional, and his investigation thrusts him into the deceit and fraudulence of the art world, where he unmasks more than one respectable face.

First published in 1967, this thrilling tale of vertigo, suspicion and infidelity is a long-forgotten classic with an intriguing plot twist.

About this title

About the Author:

GEORGE SIMS (1923–1999) was an antiquarian bookseller and unorthodox writer who wrote highly popular thrillers with cleverly woven narratives.

Review:

"First published in 1967, this entry in the British Library Classic Thrillers series does a splendid job of evoking London in the mid-'60s, both swinging and decidedly criminal...Sims (1923-1999) takes the reader on a journey to a long-gone world where entire streets of London were devoted to the trade of rare books - items valuable enough to attract the most nefarious of mobsters. Sims captures the mood of these places with an insider's knowledge, while keeping the brief novel moving with a plot that travels all over London, a city at both the end and beginning of an era." (Publishers Weekly)

About this edition

• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1464209006
• ISBN 13: 9781464209000
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192