Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Foreword

Preface

  1 ‘The Millers, a family’

  2 ‘In private and in your own time’

  3 ‘A possession that is yours to do what you like with’

  4 ‘She will have to make up her mind between them some time’

  5 ‘He will change your entire life’

  6 ‘This waiting is rather hard but all is ready’

  7 ‘Menace and murder and sudden death’

  8 ‘1st Class! Good oh! Right here’

  9 ‘The next I write will be the 5th’

10 ‘I do not think she knows who she is’

11 ‘A ghastly ten days’

12 ‘An unquestionably genuine loss of memory’

13 ‘London – Paris – Lausanne – Milan – Venice’

14 ‘An idea I’ve never ever considered’

15 ‘Corpses and stiffs’

16 ‘A nice parallel track’

17 ‘Things all seem to come at once’

18 ‘Only an interruption’

19 ‘A certain amount of fêting’

20 ‘Digging up the dead’

21 ‘All the panoply and misdirection of the conjuror’s art’

22 ‘I shall go on enjoying myself’

23 ‘An onlooker and an observer’

24 ‘Like a cinema film run backwards’

25 ‘An ordinary successful hard-working author’

26 ‘It will not, I think, be long’

Index

About the Author

About the Publisher