IRENE

by Ronald Marsh ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

The love of a woman- and not a good one- as it possesses, drives and destroys, this repeats a familiar pattern, follows it with fidelity to its foreseen conclusion. George, a bank clerk, and something of a prig, falls in love with Irene, a barmaid, beautiful, passionate and common. In spite of her past, her reformatory record, he marries her, and although she is never accepted in his circle, the real barrier comes when he discovers she has had a child by another man. Other disruptive elements enter, as a young boy attempts a suicide because of her, as she returns to a former lover- who is passing counterfeit currency, and as she finally is involved in murder. But George, throwing up his job- and his career- to go to look for her, finds her, helps her to make a getaway, but cannot prevent her death... An English setting, and vernacular, for a thriller which in any case does not rank with our native brand of Cain.

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Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1949

Categories: FICTION