McGerr, Pat - Murder is Absurd (1967)

When an angry young man writes a play with obscure references to Hamlet, the author's stepfather has some reasons to worry, most especially when truth is QUITE close to fiction.

An excellent psychological suspense by an excellent (and tragically underrated) author. No violence to be found here, but a (com)passionate examination of a trio of three-dimensional characters. Murder is Absurd works on several different levels, as Mark Kendall liberates himself from an overwhelming and long-hidden secret, builds a new, warmer relation with the step-son he'd long neglected, and comes to some kind of an artistical rebirth.

Review by Xavier Lechard