Title: The sleep of reason
First published: 1968
Description: The time is 1963. The locations are an English provincial town and London. Lewis Eliot agrees to help his old friend, the lawyer George Passant, with a murder trial. Two lesbians are charged with torturing and killing an eight-year-old boy. As the trial progresses, C.P. Snow brings alive all of the characters caught up in the tragedy.
Subjects: Mystery and detective stories, Fiction, Fiction in English, Social conditions, Social life and customs, Trials (Murder), Lesbians, 10, Detective and mystery stories, Fathers and sons, Murder, English fiction, Fiction, psychological
Places: Great Britain