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MIST ON THE WATERS, by F. L. Green; Michael Joseph, 9/6. FINGAL and Pelancey found a fifteen-year-old letter and blackmailed Malloy, Belfast representative of the Seventh Heaven Footwear Ltd. They got some money, but Fingal went back for more. This was too much for Malloy, who was paying them with money embezzled from his firm. He shot himself. The news got round. Fingal’s mother was suspicious; so was Pelancey’s gitl.Malloy’s ex-mistress, whose letter had been used, thought something was
going on. The young assistant in Pelancey’s business overheard more than he liked. Fingal and Pelancey started to fall apart at their weakest seams. They were both ovetcome with guilt; and guilt was the only thing that. sustained their frail loyalty to each other. Gradually they saw that life would become impossible for them unless they found expiation, but expiation could only come from Malloy, and he was dead. They wished for death, the primitive, tribal absolution; death came to them, and in their last moments they were closer to peace than they had been since they took Malloy’s embezzled money. Mr. Green, in masterful control of his characters and medium, is content to show us what is wrong. Limiting himself to that; he has written a
most competent novel.
G. leF.
Y.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 532, 2 September 1949, Page 14
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