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A Diet of Treacle
- Narrated by: Christian Conn
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Anita Carbone was a good girl - and it bored her. That's why she took the long subway ride down to Greenwich Village, home of the Beats and the stoners, home to every kind of misfit and dropout and free spirit you could imagine. It was where she met Joe Milani, the troubled young war veteran with the gentle touch. But it was also where she met his drug-dealing roommate - a man whose unnatural appetites led to murder....
©1961 Lawrence Block (P)2009 BBC Audio
Critic Reviews
"A potboiler morality play at its finest, the novel doesn't deliver much action until its last third, but the slow build of the first two will give readers the delicious (and all-too-rare) feeling that anything could happen." ( Publishers Weekly)
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