Goddard, Robert <br/><br/>
Borrowed time 
/ Robert Goddard. 
 - Delta trade pbk. ed. 
 - New York  : Delta Trade Paperbacks  , 2006. 
 - x, 397, [21] p.  ; 23 cm. 
<br/><br/> Long ago, Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) totally hoodwinked this reviewer, who has since been suspicious of any mystery written in the first person. This distrust was intensified by Nicholas Farrell's seemingly innocent interpretation of Robin Timariot, the protagonist of Borrowed Time. Is he the honest, ingenuous Englishman he seems? Or is he capable of complex lies, rape, and murder? Farrell's outstanding reading is as ambiguous as the story is layered. Initially, his neutral tones introduce a colorless, joyless government employee. Yet Timariot meets a lovely woman on the evening of her murder, and his emotions are stirred by her beauty and, later, by horror at hearing of her rape and murder. Even though he is unable to adequately explain his obsession with the dead woman and her family, his subsequent involvement in their lives brings some meaning to his. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780385339223 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006272446 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Murder----Fiction<br/>Businessmen----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Wales----Fiction<br/>England----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Suspense fiction<br/>Mystery fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR6057.O33  / B67 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>MYS GOD