The Wrong People (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

By Robin Maugham

Book Overview

Set against the seedy backdrop of 1960s Tangier, The Wrong People (1967) is the story of Arnold Turner, a repressed English schoolmaster on holiday in Morocco, where he meets Ewing Baird, a wealthy American expat with a dark secret. Ewing lavishly entertains him and even provides him with a young lover, but as Arnold becomes more and more involved with Ewing he realizes only too late that he has been lured into a dangerous trap - and his only chance of escape is by helping Ewing to carry out a sinister plan.

Drawing in part on the author's real-life efforts to expose the African sex trafficking trade, Robin Maugham's first explicitly gay-themed novel was both a critical and a commercial success, being reprinted several times - including in the important Gay Modern Classics series - and was optioned for a film version by Sal Mineo (Rebel Without a Cause). This edition includes a new foreword by Maugham's longtime partner William Lawrence.

'I can only think of a handful of novelists who can play the reader like a hooked fish with comparable ingenuity and suppleness.' - Francis King, Sunday Telegraph

'A very well-told story, every move nicely calculated and undeniably shuddery.' - Daily Telegraph

'A gripping thriller. Storytelling at its best.' - Sunday Express

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1948405261
• ISBN13: 9781948405263
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Valancourt Books
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"