Shock Treatment
by James Hadley Chase
Taste attributes: thrillercrimemysteryunsavouryheavyrealisticintricatelinearenclosedemotive & stirringself destruction/implosionsolving the riddle/not as it seemstroubled leads
Boxlist takeSmall-scale and morally murky: a grounded thriller. Best if you like close-up stories over spectacle.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: dark · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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5.0 / 5
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About This Book
A TV salesman, Peter Regan, falls in love with Gilda Delaney, the wife of a wheelchair bound bully. She had never stopped blaming herself for the accident that crippled her husband. At least, that was the story she told him - a story he had no reason to doubt, infatuated as he was with everything about her. Peter therefore decides to murder the bully with an ingenious plan using a TV set as the murder weapon.
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- Author
- James Hadley Chase
- Published
- 1959
- Pages
- 128
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- Open Library
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