The Furnished Room

Joe Beckett drifts from job to job and woman to woman in a seedy world of bedsitters and all-night cafes. Living in the wasteland between Notting Hill and Earl's Court, he heats up tins on gas rings and smuggles girls past the landlady. He has no values or beliefs. A chance encounter with a roadhouse braggart brings him the opportunity to murder someone to shock himself back to life. The Furnished Room was filmed as West 11.Laura Del-Rivo was an associate of Bill Hopkins and Colin Wilson, who described The Furnished Room as one of the significant novels of the 1960s.