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Past Caring

Robert Goddard

Paperback | Pages: 528 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 1972 Users | 179 Reviews

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Title	:	Past Caring
Author	:	Robert Goddard
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 528 pages
Published	:	July 17th 1987 by Corgi (first published 1986)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Thriller. Historical. Historical Fiction. Crime

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Why should distinguished Edwardian Cabinet minister Edwin Strafford resign at the height of his parliamentary career? Why does the woman he loves so suddenly and coldly reject him? Why, sixty-seven years later, should people go to such lengths - even as far as murder - to prevent the truth from being revealed? Martin Radford, history graduate, disaffected and unemployed, leaps at the chance to get to the island of Madeira and begin the hunt for a solution to the intriguing secret of Edwin Strafford's fall from grace. However, his seeming good fortune turns to nightmare as his investigation triggers a bizarre and violent train of events which remorselessly entangles him and those who believed they had escaped the spectre of crimes long past but never paid for...

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Original Title:	Past Caring
ISBN:	055213144X (ISBN13: 9780552131445)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.01 From 1972 Users | 179 Reviews

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Read this one a long time ago and just remembered it. I loved this one. I went on to read other Robert Goddard books. They're kind of all the same in the way all Hitchcock movies are the same, which is to to say that they're all the same, and why shouldn't they be? They're great and fun. Goddard writes about men with pasts that come back to haunt them. I can't say I remember the story of this one well other than some scenes on the island of Madeira, layers of the past being revealed one by

This was my first Robert Goddard novel but it won't be my last.This book tells two stories; one set in the present day and another set about seventy five years earlier. The book is structured so that the present-day protagonist, a historian, is researching the story of the 'way back when' protagonist. I've come across this kind of structure before and, when it's done well, it's a really entertaining way of unfolding and interweaving two related tales. Goddard does it well.The thing I loved the

A long read, and a pretty slow one, but there's something engrossing about the plot anyway. The way it develops over the chapters, going from a very ordinary research project into a revelation of... MURDER! And archaic British murder-while-still-being-well-mannered, too. Oddly fun.There's a bit of a hiccup to the mystery, because so much of it hinges on characters refusing to say basic pieces of information that if they just let out literally one noun, the whole story would resolve. It can be

This 1986 Booker prize-nominated novel is a rewarding reading experience. Its Goddards first published novel, which makes the Booker feat even more impressive. The expert suspense-manipulation skills of a Daphne du Maurier romance meets a John le Carre thriller is how the New York Times reviewer put it.Martin Radford is the narrator and an unlikely private detective, although, consistent with the genres requirements, he is flawed. Hes an unemployed history graduate so when a university friend

I have mixed feelings about this book.One the positive side, I enjoyed the premise. In the modern day, an ex-academic, called Martin, who has fallen on hard times, is hired to investigate a political mystery from the early 20th century. A politician, Edwin Strafford, who seemed to be on a stellar course for political success, had suddenly resigned and disappeared from the political world and from England. Martin is given a memoir, written by Strafford, which gives intriguing glimpses as to what

Not a patch on In Pale Battalions, the only other book by Goddard I have read. An unlikeable narrator, a very complex plot, a femme fatale who is ludicrously brilliant and beautiful and sexy and bad news for our narrator. It was Goddards first book and has some good things in it in terms of the plot, but some of the characters are more than a little unbelievable. Oh, and theres an embarrassingly bad sex scene too.Mildly entertaining as holiday reading.

I've been cleaning out my library and found a slew of books by Robert Goddard purchased second hand in the UK by my husband. This one was marked 1£25. Rather than move them on to a donation table, I decided to read the earliest published one of the bunch. I liked this book and plan to read more of Robert Goddard. I do think that the pacing was off in places and that it was far wordier than needed, but I did want to know how things turned out .... and there were plenty of surprises. The history