At this point I very much wanted Katinka to call home and enlist the help of Miss Let's-be-Lovely, because 'two agony aunts team up to crack the case of their weirdest correspondent' is a plot so good I really want to steal it.
I think you should.
I am most familiar with Brand as the author of Green for Danger (1944), whose 1946 film of the same name I love. It is not as wild a ride as this novel sounds like, but it's also not a Gothic, and it is nevertheless kind of nuts.
[edit] The sinister German doctor was in fact just a perfectly normal refugee plastic surgeon who fled the Nazis in 1936 and never appears in the book again.
Altered my icon because I realized I had immediately pictured this character as played by Peter Lorre.
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I think you should.
I am most familiar with Brand as the author of Green for Danger (1944), whose 1946 film of the same name I love. It is not as wild a ride as this novel sounds like, but it's also not a Gothic, and it is nevertheless kind of nuts.
[edit] The sinister German doctor was in fact just a perfectly normal refugee plastic surgeon who fled the Nazis in 1936 and never appears in the book again.
Altered my icon because I realized I had immediately pictured this character as played by Peter Lorre.