And his experience of the place on this particular visit changes everything: He drives down to the property with his friend Rufus, a pre-med student. His first thought is to sell Wyvis Hall, take the money and run. The old man willed the property to the son, largely to spite the father.Īt the time that Adam comes into his inheritance, he’s the archetypal impoverished student. However, Lewis’s sycophantic ways got under Hilbert’s skin. In point of fact Lewis Verne-Smith, Adam’s father, had expected to be the new owner of Wyvis Hal. Adam was well acquainted with Wyvis Hall, having gone there as a child with his parents. It’s a family home and was lived in by Adam’s great-uncle Hilbert until the time of that person’s death. It is all quite idyllic – you could almost say, Edenic. Not just any house – this one is quite grand, with a beautiful garden and an adjacent woodland. It is during that earlier period that a 19-year-old boy named Adam Verne-Smith inherits a house. Much of the novel’s action takes place during that time period, and also ten years earlier. Under the pseudonym of Barbara Vine, Ruth Rendell has written a series of psychological thrillers which are distinguished by the subtlety with which they draw readers into tangled webs of love, guilt and remorse.ġ00 Must-read Crime Novels, Richard Shephard and Nick RennisonĪ Fatal Inversion came out in the mid 1980’s. Apat 1:57 am ( Book review, books, Mystery fiction)
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