ALTHOUGH its title is familiar to
connoisseurs of crime fiction, this classic story of crime and ironic
retribution was only recently published in this country.
It appeared as a novel in England
in 1926—some years before Captain Horatio Hornblower and the other sea tales
upon which C. S. Forester's fame rests. Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester
starred in the dramatic and motion picture versions of Payment Deferred, firmly establishing their reputations. The dramatic
versions were extremely successful on both sides of the Atlantic.
Now this macabre story of a
perfect crime and its strange aftermath is available to American readers. It is
a haunting classic in its own right, and one more proof of Mr. Forester's
virtuosity.
"It is packed with incident
and suspense; the reader will have no desire to put it down until he has
finished it."—The New York Times
Book Review.
This special edition of PAYMENT
DEFERRED has been made available to the Armed Forces of the United States
through an arrangement with Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Editions for the Armed Services,
Inc., a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime
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