A ROBIN REDBREAST IN A CAGE

by Myrtle Johnston ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 18, 1951

A dark odyssey which explores with a certain fitful tension the byways of crime and conscience, good and evil, and which sustains a rather uncertain course as it hovers on the perimeter of the psychotic. This follows the aftermath of the trial of Pat Charrender, well born and Oxford bred, when a jury brings in a verdict of not guilty for his wanton killing of a tramp. In his acquittal, which is to bring with it no inner peace, Pat becomes involved with Felicia, a prison warden, and the victim of a brutal attack which had cost her her chance to become a singer, left her with a crippled, crazed brother, and some distorted drives to main and kill which eventually find their release in a last rendezvous with Pat- whom she murders.... Some murky moments here for a story of unreasoning violence and ultimate retribution.

Pub Date: Oct. 18, 1951

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1951

Categories: FICTION