C. S. Forester's 1935 thriller The Pursued, lost for decades, rewrote the traditions of crime fiction to create a dark, twisted portrayal of obsession and retribution.
Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 - 2 April 1966), an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston). His novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. He began his career with the crime novels Payment Deferred and Plain Murder, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics along with The Pursued, which was lost for over 60 years.
C. S. Forester is a splendid storyteller
*Guardian*
I recommend Forester to every literate I know
*Ernest Hemingway*
The Pursued is a wonderful, almost miraculous discovery: a hitherto
unknown crime novel by an author who is the unsung godfather of
English noir
*Andrew Taylor*
Forester has a great eye and a subtle understanding of the
dangerous passions lurking just beneath the surface of everyday
life. A riveting read.
*Sarah Waters*
a tale of very English murder, it foreshadows the unease of
metropolitan life in its near-contemporaries, George Orwell's
Coming Up for Air, Patrick Hamilton's Hangover Square and Graham
Greene's Brighton Rock
*Financial Times*
A brilliant tale of twisted minds in suburban Thirties London
*Daily Telegraph*
Skilful and chilling ... a tense psychological drama
*Sunday Times*
Murder, lust, obsession, retribution, they're all here
*Daily Mail*
Exposes the passions that lurk behind the net curtains of
lower-middle-class suburbia ... teeming with atmosphere
*The Times*
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