The one in which a lonely no-hoper has been pushed off a bridge near his house and begins with Banks walking along the (disused, post Beeching?) railway line towards the victim’s house.
The plot is complex, with two main strands, one involving the victim’s employment history and a red herring, the other involving an aristocratic woman whom he phoned not long before his death. After much procrastination and evasion by her, it transpires that she and the victim had been at university together and briefly lovers, and he has guessed her secret and is trying to extort money from her, which results in his death. Typically, Banks has acquired a new girlfriend before the end.
Good, but I am maybe reading too many of these. Robinson and I are probably contemporaries and share a lot of musical tastes (Grateful Dead) and probably politics and views on the world.
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