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The Compass Stone

This is the dark memoir of a young murderess who shares a mansion with her fatherthe Maimed Onebut lives alone in that part of it she calls the Greenhouse. An incomparable beauty, she more than once entices a man to a homicidal "soiree" at which she slits his throat with a razor while he is in the midst of orgasm. She gives no hint of her reaction to the speculation of S — -, an amateur detective whose fascination with the murders provides the novel's only element of suspense. Her own thoughts, invariably in interrogative form, may lead the reader to wonder in turn: Is there no relief from this decadence?

- L. M. Lewis, Eastern Kentucky Univ., Richmond

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 165
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780802100023
  • Characters
  • Marquis de Sade, Narrator (Hillyer), The Maimed One, The Sisters
  • Settings
  • Spain
  • Genres
  • spain
  • Release date
  • 1987