| Anthony Berkeley Cox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (928 words) |
 | But whereas Mitty desperately needed looking after (and his fantasies were, simply, denial of this reality), Bickleigh had married his wife for money and status and had to tolerate her dominance until he took steps to dispose of her (hence the book's title). |
| Bickleigh's fantasies were an escape from harsh reality and in a couple of pages (Chapter 2) Iles has him winning an international cricket match for England almost single-handed, performing life-saving surgery on the King, writing Bickleigh's Symphony in C, fighting in the War: 'Field Marshall Bickleigh.... |
| ‘Bickleigh 'may owe something of his masterly technique to Rembrandt, but the brilliant manner in which he has transmuted it to his own purposes is all his own. |
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