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The sleep of reason
C. P. Snow · 1968 · 461 pages
Mystery and detective storiesFictionFiction in EnglishSocial conditionsSocial life and customsTrials (Murder)
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The time is 1963. The locations are an English provincial town and London. Lewis Eliot agrees to help his old friend, the lawyer George Passant, with a murder trial. Two lesbians are charged with torturing and killing an eight-year-old boy. As the trial progresses, C.P. Snow brings alive all of the characters caught up in the tragedy.
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