Mystery In Spiderville

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<p>Alongside the names of James Hadley Chase and Erle Stanley Gardner we must now add that of John Hartley Williams - though Mystery in Spiderville is no run-of-the-mill hard-boiled thriller. The décor is by Dali, the plot is a mixture of Breton and Burroughs, and the main character - the protean and unkillable Spider Rembrandt - has six toes, sleeps in a grave and dreams of congress with the pert and playful Reedy Buttons.</p><p>Sucked into the vortex of Spider's philandering mind is a narrator - sometimes Spider's adversary, sometimes his victim - who lies upon a bed brooding on the absence of a nameless, brown-haired woman. He, too, is protean: full of passionate longings and homicidal tendencies.</p><p>A surrealist film-noir that blends the forensic with the erotic, the seedy penny-dreadful and the lyric prose-poem,<i>Mystery in Spiderville</i>is one of the strangest, strongest and most arresting fictional debuts in years.</p>

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John Hartley Williams has published nine poetry collections, including<i>Spending Time with Walter</i>and, most recently,<i>Blues</i>(2004). He co-edited<i>Teach Yourself Writing Poetry</i>and won the Arvon International Poetry Competition in 1983. He teaches English at the Free University of Berlin, where he has been since 1976.

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