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‘A man does not leave school at fourteen, make a fortune by forty and go on to become a skilful and powerful politician without ruthlessness.’ Hugh Mason was the kind of man it was very easy to hate, if you were not susceptible to his particular kind of charm. He had of necessity hurt a lot of people on his way up. Taciturn and enigmatic, his extended family did not really know him well. At a weekend gathering for his 60th birthday, it slowly becomes apparent that Hugh plans to give substantial funding and support to a new right-wing political group called the Freemen. The next morning Hugh is dead of poisoning and the evidence suggests a family member must be responsible. But who among them would risk such a move, given that Hugh provides for all?

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Poisoning of a British industrialist with a politically minded family who range from Fabian Bevanites to ingenious neo-fascists. Told by the cunning little war-widow niece on who no fly settles for longer than it needs to change legs. Criminologically a little amateurish, but distinctly above average for intelligence. -- Maurice Richardson * The Observer * THE STAR thriller of the Month. Has much distinction....I hail Marjorie Bremner as a distinguished newcomer -- Joseph Taggart * The Star *

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Marjorie Bremner was born in the U.S. and educated in psychology and social sciences at the University of Chicago and Columbia University. In 1946 she came to London to work on her Ph.D. in political science. She became a researcher for the Hansard society, lecturer, journalist specializing in social and political problems, reviewer and author of detective stories.

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