Well, this time I picked out an old paperback from my box of 60s +70s science fiction pbs, and, even though I stayed up late to finish it ( fell asleep, then awakened, then struggled on to the end),I think this one would have been better left in the box. SPOILER ALERT--the picture on the cover h...
The Agency is neither of them. While there may be some procedural similarities, because procedures in many agencies are much the same, no person or happening in either of the agencies in which I have worked (or any others) may be identified with any person or happening in this book. &...
It was a small room, sparsely furnished. The floor was of polished boards; a small Numdah rug lay beside the bed. The bedstead was of iron. The Colonel had bought it at a sale for fifteen shillings, and it fitted him, being simple and spare and only a little larger than he was himself. The Colone...
Halliday decided that action could not be put off any longer. It would have been better, as she now clearly saw, to have used Lucy while Lucy lived. As soon as it had become obvious that Lucy was pining, Mrs. Halliday should have put on her coat, and carried Lucy round to Ovington Square for a re...