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Confidentially Yours (1962)

de Charles Williams

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A small town is doomed by jealousy, greed, and a shared love of hunting

In the backwoods town of Carthage, there isn't much for the leading citizens to do but drink, sleep, and shoot. John Warren is preparing for an early morning duck hunt when he hears two shotgun blastsâ?? only later does he learn they were the sound of Dan Roberts's death. Although it appears the handsome young man killed himself, Warren and the police are smart enough to realize that suicide victims seldom shoot twice.

That night, a drunk woman calls Warren's house, offering a motive for the crime he didn't commit. Roberts was sleeping with Warren's wifeâ??and he wasn't her only lover. Warren didn't kill Roberts, but as the rumors begin to swirl, he may wish that he had. In a town where every man is a crack shot, shooting a rival isn't murder. It's target practice.

"[Williams] is just about as good as they come." â??The New York Times

"Relying on wit, humor and ingenious plotting, Williams's characters constantly attempt to outwit the system." â??Woody Haut, author of Pulp Culture

"One of the neglected hardboiled geniuses . . . his novels were perfect little gems." â??Joe R. Lansdale, author of Savage Season

Charles Williams (1909â??1975) was one of the preeminent authors of American crime fiction. Born in Texas, he dropped out of high school to enlist in the US Merchant Marine, serving for ten years before leaving to work in the electronics industry. At the end of World War II, Williams began writing fiction while living in San Francisco. The success of his backwoods noir Hill Girl (1951) allowed him to quit his job and write fulltime.

Williams's clean and somewhat casual narrative style distinguishes his novelsâ??which range from hard-boiled, small-town noir to suspense thrillers set at sea and in the Deep South. Although originally published by pulp fiction houses, his work won great critical acclaim, with Hell Hath No Fury (1953) becoming the first paperback original to be reviewed by legendary New York Times critic Anthony Boucher. Many of his novels were adapted for the screen, such as Dead Calm (published in 1963) and Don't Just Stand There! (published in 1966), for which Williams wrote the screenplay. Williams died in Californi… (mais)

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USA, 1960, januar
John Duquesne Warren, kaldet Duke, er gift med Frances. Hun er taget til New Orleans og bruger godt med penge. Duke kan godt lide at gå på andejagt, så han tager ud at skyde ænder en tidlig morgen. Lidt efter kommer en anden jagtkammerat Roberts kørende, sætter bilen og tager et andet jagtskjul. Duke hører lidt senere to skud, men tænker ikke mere over det. Senere på dagen ringer sheriffen Scanlon til Duke og kan fortælle at jagtkammeraterne Dr Martin og MacBride har fundet Roberts død. Tilsyneladende ramt af et skud fra sit eget gevær, men ved nærmere eftersyn er det sekser-hagl i Roberts patroner og han er dræbt af firer-hagl som Duke bruger.
Duke har en fast sagfører, George Clement, som er superskarp i pæren. Han er 51 år, høj og gift med den velhavende Fleurelle. Duke har også en superbegavet sekretær, Barbara Ryan, hvilket han får god gavn af efterhånden som indicierne mod ham hober sig op.
Frances kommer hjem og han konfronterer hende med beviser for at hun har været ham utro med Roberts. Efter et skænderi, der resulterer i nogle beskadigede dørkarme, bliver han kaldt hen på sherifkontoret af undersherif Mulhoney, som han ikke er de bedste venner med, så han fortier både at Frances er kommet tilbage og at de har været oppe at skændes.
Det er en dum ide for da han kommer hjem igen er Frances blevet slået ihjel på ret brutal vis.
I baggrunden spøger også et mord et par år tidligere på en Junior Delevan.
Efter mange forviklinger og en fælde, som skurken heldigvis går på, finder de ud af at Frances var eftersøgt af politiet for en mængde forskellige forbrydelser. Hun kom fra Guatemala, var af irsk og spansk afstamning og uddannet i USA. Hun blev gift med en californisk brugtvognsforhandler uagtet at hun var gift i forvejen. Brugte godt løs af hans penge og kom til at køre en mand ihjel, hvorefter hun forsvandt. Hun blev åbenbart samlet op af George Clement, der installerede hende med en modeforretning i en ejendom, som Duke ejede. Mindre end et halvt år efter havde hun brugt pengene, solgt værdipapirer og inventar og ovenikøbet vidste hun at Clement havde myrdet Delevan, så hun var både kostbar og farlig.
Roberts var blevet smidt ud af politiet i en anden by, men havde nys om at Frances ikke havde rent mel i posen og pressede penge af hende (og dermed Clement). Han havde dog ingen anelse om at Clement stod bag og hans hemmelig var meget farligere end Frances. Clement havde sat detektiven Paul Denman til at skygge hende og opdagede at hun spillede store penge væk på væddeløbsbanerne.

Barbara hjælper Duke og de ender selvfølgelig med at blive gift. Og George Clement ryger i fængsel. Scanlon vil gerne være forlover og da han hører at det kommene brudepar er lidt uenige om udenomsarealer til huset skal være græsplæne eller swimmingpool, tænker han straks at bryllupsgave skal være en plæneklipper, for græsplænen er Barbaras ide.

Romanen gav François Truffaut inspirationen til filmen "Confidentially Yours" eller "Vivement Dimanche!" eller "I al fortrolighed". Den kan i skrivende stund (april 2022) lånes på Filmstriben, som er bibliotekernes gratis filmlånemulighed. Og omslagsbilledet med Barbara, der svinger et eiffeltårn er hentet fra filmen. Filmhistorien er lavet en del om, fx foregår den i Frankrig, men det er stadig advokaten, der er skurken og han begår meget belejligt selvmord, da han bliver afsløret. Og en synligt gravid Barbara og ejendomsmægleren bliver gift. ( )
  bnielsen | Apr 7, 2022 |
Charles Williams' 1962 novel, "Confidentially Yours" (aka The Long Saturday Night), is a top-notch thriller that is a lot of fun to read. This is, at base, yet another man- on-the-run story about an ordinary guy in a small town who suddenly finds himself suspected of murder and races to solve the murder mystery before the sheriff's deputies close in on him.

What happens to Warren, as told with Williams' fantastic writing, could happen to anyone. Going duck-hunting before a day at the office, Warren hears a couple of shots over in the next blind and doesn't think much of it until he finds out that acquaintance was shot that morning and there was no one else around. Meanwhile, Warren's wife, Frances, is off in New Orleans, spending money like there's no tomorrow and insisting that she will need to spend yet a few more days there and Warren gets anonymous calls pointing somehow to his wife's connection with Roberts, the guy who got shot, and warning him that he will never get away with it, asking why not just shoot her instead, and insisting that Roberts was not the only one. Williams skillfully tightens the noose around Warren's neck inch by inch as, not only means but motive points only to him.

While the underlying man-on-the-run theme may not be new, Williams, as he always does creates a compelling story. It begins with the one person in town who believes in Warren, his secretary, Barbara Ryan, "a girl who knows where everything is buried, including the bodies," a "30-year-old divorcee" with "reddish mahogany-colored hair that always seems a little tousled."

But, that's nothing compared with the description of Warren's wife, Frances, who almost hypnotizes Warren: "All I had to do was stand up," he explains, "take two steps toward her, and we'd be in bed in ninety seconds flat. And the hell of it was that once I started there'd be no more possibility of turning back than of changing my mind halfway down about going over Niagra Falls. Maybe she was a liar, and a cheat, and capable of using sex with the precise calculation of a tournament bridge player executing a squeeze play, but she was good at it."

This is simply a solid stand-alone thriller that skillfully places the reader in the narrator's shoes. Good stuff, indeed. ( )
  DaveWilde | Sep 22, 2017 |
A fun ride through a twisted mess of relationships as a man tries to prove that he didn't kill his unfaithful wife. Williams knows how to pull the reader along, the narrative voice is compelling while one is reading, but I found nothing particularly distinctive about this. Still, I'm looking forward to seeing what Truffault does with the material (Confidentially Yours, his last film). ( )
  bibleblaster | Jan 23, 2016 |
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A small town is doomed by jealousy, greed, and a shared love of hunting

In the backwoods town of Carthage, there isn't much for the leading citizens to do but drink, sleep, and shoot. John Warren is preparing for an early morning duck hunt when he hears two shotgun blastsâ?? only later does he learn they were the sound of Dan Roberts's death. Although it appears the handsome young man killed himself, Warren and the police are smart enough to realize that suicide victims seldom shoot twice.

That night, a drunk woman calls Warren's house, offering a motive for the crime he didn't commit. Roberts was sleeping with Warren's wifeâ??and he wasn't her only lover. Warren didn't kill Roberts, but as the rumors begin to swirl, he may wish that he had. In a town where every man is a crack shot, shooting a rival isn't murder. It's target practice.

"[Williams] is just about as good as they come." â??The New York Times

"Relying on wit, humor and ingenious plotting, Williams's characters constantly attempt to outwit the system." â??Woody Haut, author of Pulp Culture

"One of the neglected hardboiled geniuses . . . his novels were perfect little gems." â??Joe R. Lansdale, author of Savage Season

Charles Williams (1909â??1975) was one of the preeminent authors of American crime fiction. Born in Texas, he dropped out of high school to enlist in the US Merchant Marine, serving for ten years before leaving to work in the electronics industry. At the end of World War II, Williams began writing fiction while living in San Francisco. The success of his backwoods noir Hill Girl (1951) allowed him to quit his job and write fulltime.

Williams's clean and somewhat casual narrative style distinguishes his novelsâ??which range from hard-boiled, small-town noir to suspense thrillers set at sea and in the Deep South. Although originally published by pulp fiction houses, his work won great critical acclaim, with Hell Hath No Fury (1953) becoming the first paperback original to be reviewed by legendary New York Times critic Anthony Boucher. Many of his novels were adapted for the screen, such as Dead Calm (published in 1963) and Don't Just Stand There! (published in 1966), for which Williams wrote the screenplay. Williams died in Californi

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