THE LINK: A Victorian Mystery

by Robin Maugham ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 1969

By now it has been firmly established that Robin Maugham is every bit his uncle's nephew and his covert entertainment, based on an actual case, noiselessly opens and closes cupboard doors. This then, under the hum-buggery of staunch Victorian propriety, is the story of one James Steede--disappeared? deceased? or perhaps some twelve years later the rightful claimant to the baronetcy and the estate in Nottinghamshire from which his mother had driven him after suggesting that he was socially diseased and interfering with his hoped for marriage. Actually Steede's disease was something else again--a need for young men inculculated at Eton and perpetuated at Cambridge and he disappears with a crude opportunist to literally drink himself to death. But then who is the figure who looks just like him but cannot countenance his mother's relentlessly overriding love? This heavy-lidded tale of furtive and oppressive passions is told with Mr. Maugham's easy elegance -- a sinuous shell game by gaslight.

Pub Date: Sept. 1, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1969

Categories: FICTION