I have not developed the habit of reading thrillers, but I have read enough of them to know that from now on Mr. we can recommend this one with no reservations whatsoever. If you enjoy top-drawer detective fiction. The texture of his plot is stretched tight as a drum-and he maintains the tautness artfully until the final page. Fearing's short and continuously entertaining novel may be classified as a whodunit in reverse-plus a certain social comment that may be taken painlessly, along with the whirligig action. Fearing's taut, relaxed fiction is even better, deservedly a classic in its depiction of the corporate man at his most basic and disloyal. Fearing's intricate portrait of murder and the corporate mentality couldn't feel more current. There is no such thing as progress in literature, and as much as we pursue the latest thing, novelty is no advantage in a novel. The Big Clock, Kenneth Fearing's brilliant study in noir, is 60 years old and looks better all the time.
That rare noir masterwork that somehow both keeps you in suspense and unmoors you with its underlying fatalism." -NPRĪ ruthless vision of corporate conformity and middle-class discontent. How does a man escape from himself? No book has ever dramatized that question to more perfect effect than The Big Clock, a masterpiece of American noir.
Janoth badly wants to get his hands on that man, and he picks one of his most trusted employees to track him down: George Stroud, who else? Janoth knows there was one witness to his entry into Pauline's apartment on the night of the murder he knows that man must have been the man Pauline was with before he got back but he doesn't know who he was. The day after that, Pauline is found murdered in her apartment. The next day Stroud escorts Pauline home, leaving her off at the corner just as Janoth returns from a trip. One day, before heading home to his wife in the suburbs, Stroud has a drink with Pauline, the beautiful girlfriend of his boss, Earl Janoth. George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, none-too-scrupulous writer for a New York media conglomerate that bears a striking resemblance to Time, Inc. A classic of American noir, part murder mystery and part black comedy, set in dark corners of corporate New York City.
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