Payment Deferred: Psychological Thriller

By C.S. Forester and Forester C. S.

Book Overview

Payment Deferred is a crime novel by C.S. Forester. It tells about William Marble, a bank clerk living in south London with a wife, Annie, and two teenage children. William suffers financial crisis and suddenly gets visited by a rich orphaned nephew, who's just inherited a large sum of money. A cruel plot comes to his mind and eventually he gets very rich, although he now lives under the burden of a hard crime. The rich life, new love affairs and better education for children don't bring him happiness. The dark fate follows him everywhere and he lives in fear that it will finally catch up with him.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8027342252
• ISBN13: 9788027342259
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: E-Artnow
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A little gem of suspense

This early novel by the creator of Horatio Hornblower is a little gem of suspense. Nicely done, in a spare style, this moves along a nice clip. Hitchcock might have done a good film of this - attention filmmakers - it's not too late. Of course it would work best as a period piece, set like the novel between the wars. No spoilers here - just a nod to a terrific writer near the beginning of his illustrious career. Ignore the naysayers - you'll like it.

excellent mystery

This was the first succestfull novel by C.S. Foresterand I believe the only mystery that he wrote which is unfortunate! It is well structured with many plot twists and a classic ending!

Payment Deferred - Forester's first published novel

Payment deferred is a superbly written crime novel. The main charachter is well developed and the dark plot leads to the excellent final twist. Truely a milestone in crime fiction this book was unfortunatly overshadowed by Agatha Christie's 'Murder of Roger Ackroyd ' published the same year. In my opinion this book is second only to ' The general ' as forester's best work and shows that Hornblower is only a small part of the man's literary achievments.