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The Lenient Beast (Paperback)

by Fredric Brown (Author)
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Logical add-on to the old phrase about a busybody never resting. Fred Brown's Lenient Beast is a five-part narrative telling of the perfect crime. The killer is driven not out of lust, greed or any of the usual sobs, rather 'cause he cares so much for all of us. First published 1956.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent mystery novel., Dec 19 1999
By Alban F. Kaff (Jersey City, NJ) - See all my reviews
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Fredric Brown's masterful mystery novel (which I read in one sitting) is a skillfully written tale featuring multiple first person perspectives. Fully developed characters and absoultely dead-on, realistic dialog kept me engaged throughout. Brown touches on a range of human issues such as interracial marriage, anti-semitism and alchoholism in a truthful manner and weaves this into a murder mystery laden with psychological torment, a la Jim Thompson. This is simply one of the best books I've read in a long time.
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5.0 out of 5 stars You've never read a detective novel quite like this one..., Jul 10 1998
By deadmanjones (Stockport, UK) - See all my reviews
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This novel of serial killings garners its strength from the bluntness and crispness of Brown's narrative; this is a detective novel with no moody lighting, no one-liners and no super cool hero. Each chapter presents a different view point, yet each latches onto the previous chapter to create a stifling tale of a week in a small town in the US south with a killer on the lose. This is the literary equivalent of Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth or Mystery Train - this is Pynchon rather than Spillane.
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