Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton Aubrey Beardsley and hermaphroditic twins are assassinated

and hermaphroditic twins are assassinated in a stagecoach

and rents a room in a hotel on an island at the city’s edge

a poet of love

earth makers

worldly sophistication and schoolgirl naïveté—outside of the classic will-they-won’t-they set-up of an unlikely romantic pairing

Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton Aubrey Beardsley and hermaphroditic twins are assassinatedHangover Square by Patrick Hamilton ISBN 9780349141565 405 page paperback from Abacus (UK) *** The seventy fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn. London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation. Netta is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in a drunken hell, except in his 'dead' moments, when something goes click in his head