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This - as only Norman Collins can tell it - is the storyline of Stanley Pitts, a agreements filing clerk in the Admiralty, a little man - small in stature, small in ambition and accomplishment, happy in his work, and specialized in his hobby of photography. For Stan himself, his latest inability with the Civil Service Selection Plank might not have mattered too much. But it mattered to his partner, Beryl. For Beryl is a cultural climber, mistress of the home in Kendal Terrace, Crocketts Green with its garden gnomes, its wall-to-wall carpeting, its ivory teeth enamel kitchen fitments and its own fridge full of Oven-Fresh Old Style Farm House Cornish Pasties; Beryl, mom of little Marleen with her flaxen ringlets, potential winner of the under-12s ballroom dancing championship; Beryl, the South London suburban housewife in her Mexican housecoat with the Sun-God keys. When Stan's tasteful photographic review of "Hoarfrost on Wimbledon Common" is victorious the Admiralty-Division Photographic Competition on the very eve of his expected advertising, never gets the future appeared brighter for the inhabitants of No. 16. How then have Stan, along with his pride in his job and his willing sense of work, find his way into the dock of No. 1 Court docket at the Old Bailey? Why was the word such a savage one? What became of Beryl? And what part have Mr Cheevers, crime reporter of the Sunday Sunshine, play in all this? Norman Collins is a get good at storyteller. Its high humor and almost intolerable suspense make it a brilliant and unforgettable novel.
