![]() ![]() She is full of hope and excited to see her husband again but also all the nurses and doctors who have been attending her. We have Marda West in hospital for an eye surgery which is supposed to return her vision to her there is to be a fitting of temporary blue lenses followed by permanent ones. ![]() The Blue Lenses is probably my favourite, and also the most unnerving in the book, where it isn’t perhaps only the main character who is wondering what game is being played with her, but us as well. In this story, like in My Cousin Rachel, which I just revisited, I felt du Maurier like a puppet master played with us as well, getting us to see certain things, and then throwing in a twist, and then a further one which we don’t see coming at all. ![]() When he arrives there with his art supplies, he begins to find that he is actually enjoying the process of painting. He picks a shabby home in a shabby neighbourhood, where the caretaker is a young woman with a child, and leases a room there in the guise of an artist seeking a quiet space to work. Suddenly disgusted with the world around him, he comes up with a sinister plan-to randomly murder someone. The first story, The Alibi is about James Fenton, an ordinary salaried man, out on a Sunday afternoon walk with his wife when something in him snaps. ![]()
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