num_pages: 206
description: FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY JOHN LE CARRÉ  "This novel comprises some of the best work of an extremely gifted and perhaps under-regarded British crime novelist....What gave John Bingham (1908-1988) his magic was something we look for in every writer, too often in vain: an absolute command of the internal landscape of his characters, acutely observed by a humane but wonderfully corrosive eye." Peter Harding and Philip Bartels share a friendship that goes back to childhood. Now trapped in a disenchanted marriage with his wife, Beatrice, Philip meets and falls in love with the graceful, charming Lorna Dickson. Overcome by the prospect of a humiliating divorce, Philip makes the decision to poison Beatrice. But when he invites his best friend, Peter, to meet his mistress he sets off a shocking chain of events that will forever change the lives of everyone involved.  Available for the first time in over twenty years, Five Roundabouts to Heaven is one of master writer and storyteller John Bingham's greatest works. With a chilling, expertly calibrated plot and mesmerizing prose, it is the powerful study of how murder can so easily enter the minds of ordinary people.
language: English
title: Five Roundabouts to Heaven
titlecomplete: Five Roundabouts to Heaven
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Suspense
ratings_count: 164
publisher: Simon & Schuster