Let's Kill Uncle

ISBN-13: 9781408808573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 288 str.

Rohan O'Grady

Opis

When recently-orphaned Barnaby Gaunt is sent to stay with his uncle on a remote island off the coast of Canada, he soon realises that his uncle is trying to kill him. Heir to a ten-million-dollar fortune, Barnaby tells the only other child on the island, Chrissie, who concludes that they must kill him first.

Recenzje

'A dark, whimsical, startling book, far ahead of its time' Donna Tartt

O autorze

Rohan O'Grady is the pseudonym for June Margaret O'Grady who was born in Vancouver in 1922. O'Grady began writing poetry and stories as a young child and ventured into full length fiction in her late thirties after her marriage to newspaper editor Frederick Skinner. By 1963, O'Grady had published three novels in three years, O'Houlihan's Jest in 1961, Pippin's Journal in 1962, and Let's Kill Uncle in 1963. The latter two books were illustrated by Edward Gorey. In 1966, William Castle directed the Hollywood horror movie Let's Kill Uncle starring Nigel Green and Mary Badham (the young star of To Kill a Mockingbird ). Several unproduced screenplays and two novels followed: Bleak November in 1970 and The Mayspoon in 1981. June Skinner has resided in West Vancouver since 1959.