Payment Deferred - C.S. Forester

C.S. Forester Cecil Scott Forester (1899-1966) is generally remembered as the author of swashbuckling adventure stories, particularly the Captain Hornblower saga. In his early days, before he hit his stride, he was also a historical biographer and, in this case, writer of murder stories – not detective stories, rather whodunits-in-reverse. In the words of crime and historical novelist Andrew Taylor, he was ’the improbable pioneer of a very English form of noir crime fiction.’ First published in 1926, ‘Payment Deferred’ was one of his first books, and his first novel. Although it has frequently ... more