London: Cassell, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third and last of three highly praised black comedies written by Hall in the 1960s - although he went on to have a very long and successful career as a writer for television and even as an author of children's books, in a 1917 interview he commented that he was most proud of his novels. This novel, about the irony of fate, is comedy at its blackest, written with chilling humor, leading up to a startling and violent conclusion. 132 pp.