Deptford Trilogy - Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy is like a warm bath to read, a mixture of great charcterisation and clever plot. The three books, available as a collection under one cover and published by Penguin, revolve around the mysterious death of a Canadian Millionaire and spans most of the first three quarters of the 20th Centuary. Each book revolves around the view points of a particular character who, in their own way have been intimately involved with the deceased millionaire. The First, a childhood and adult friend, the second, his son and the third, a magician from the same small Canadian town of Deptford which gives the trilogy its name. ...  Read the complete review