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The Wycherly Woman_Ross Macdonald_Bantam Book_1973
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I brought two paperbacks for accent colours.
Red science fiction and green mystery.
Both were to be read, the sci-fi for train journeys and the mystery before going to bed at night.
I decided on the spot that the green one was more appropriate, both in terms of colour tone and content.
The Wycherly Woman.
I read this once when I was a student. The author was still alive at the time. But the pace of one new novel a year was broken, and I acquired and read the old ones in a disjointed order, anxiously awaiting the new one. The disjointedness was related to the fact that my father, who was still serving at sea, had bought them for me in the US and I bought the British editions from the British Book Service.
Even though I was engrossed in reading them, the stories are all similar in that the main character, a private detective, ends up uncovering a family tragedy as he pursues the disappearances of children from wealthy families.
This time, I was struck by a scene in which an alcoholic woman is drinking gin. As a student, I still did not know what gin tasted like. But now, when I saw the name of the gin, the trademark came to mind.
I have known it since nursery school, when I saw a lion-like dragon head on the label of the bottle my father was drinking from.
That was apparently a boar, not a dragon.
I don't remember my father drinking gin.
When he bought a box of cheap domestic vodka and drank it in a way that it wouldn't last a week, that's what I remember from secondary school and high school.
It was only recently that I became aware of the personal circumstances of the author, who was writing a story about the disappearance of beautiful daughter.
