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John Kingsford suits his home of Darlock House on Exmoor. He has retreated there following the tragic death of his wife and the loss of the easiest Parliamentary seat he could ever have wished for. Into his morose existence bursts Miss Grace Lindsay and her enigmatic nephew, Carlo Graber, a young man of means, habits and a fierce mind, who both take up residence in Darlock's spare wing. Carlo has learnt of Darlock from his late mother's drunken eulogies and his unexplained whim has brought them there for an extended stay.
As these disparate three come to learn each other, discovering more of the Kingsford legacy, unspoken secrets quietly rumble in the background, building to a final shocking crescendo of hidden adultery, murder and tragedy.
'Thriller and novel inhabit the same pages triumphantly in this tale of Exmoor, initiation and revenge' The Times
'Canning reveals his mastery of story-telling' Manchester Evening News
'Sustained excellence . . . excitement and menace.' Oxford Mail
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Victor Canning was primarily a writer of thrillers, and wrote his many books under the pseudonyms Julian Forest and Alan Gould. Among his immediate contemporaries were Eric Ambler, Alistair Maclean and Hammond Innes.
Canning was a prolific writer throughout his career, which began young: he had sold several short stories by the age of nineteen and his first novel, Mr Finchley Discovers His England (1934) was published when he was twenty-three. Canning also wrote for children: his The Runaways trilogy was adapted for US children's television.
Canning's later thrillers were darker and more complex than his earlier work and received great critical acclaim. The Rainbird Pattern was awarded the CWA Silver Dagger in 1973 and nominated for an Edgar award in 1974.
In 1976 The Rainbird Pattern was transformed by Alfred Hitchcock into the comic film The Family Plot, which was to be Hitchcock's last film. Several of Canning's other novels including Golden Salamander (1949) were also made into films during Canning's lifetime.
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