John Rowland - Calamity In Kent - 2016 [EN]

"Calamity in Kent by John Rowland" is a Unknown title in English, distributed as a EPUB file (1.2 MB). Written by John Rowland. The book spans approximately 251 pages with 79,919 words. In spirit, however, this book has more in common with breezy popular fiction of the 1930s, when Rowland started writing, rather than with crime fiction of the 1950s, such as Patricia Highsmith’s debut novel. John Herbert Shelley Rowland (1907–1984) seems to have recognised that the times were changing for crime novelists. It was not merely that he was acting queerly; quite apart from the fact that he seemed to be drunk, or stunned, or shocked, there was something queer, almost grotesque, about his appearance. The fact that he wore thick-lensed spectacles with heavy horn-rims added to the qu...