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F E Higgins
The Black Book of Secrets
Macmillan (298 pages + information) 9780330444057
In a most unusual opening Ludlow Flitch flees the cruelty of his parents and by chance and at night meets the pawnbroker, Joe Zabbidou. What Joe pawns are the innermost secrets the village folk of Pagus Parver tell him, during the hours of darkness, and he records these in his strange black book. Individual tales of thieving, murder, body-snatching all mount up but in the end lead to the demise of the bullying businessman who has held folk and their lives in thrall for years. This very different book with a wonderfully appropriate cover demands that anyone glancing at a page or two has to read on - and on.