# Payment Deferred

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- Book: [Payment Deferred](https://www.bookquiver.com/c-s-forester/payment-deferred) ([Payment Deferred.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/c-s-forester/payment-deferred.md))
- Authors: [C. S. Forester](https://www.bookquiver.com/c-s-forester)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4165-417-0
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2023-10-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills, until the combination of a wealthy relative, a bottle of Cyanide and a shovel offer him the perfect solution. Slowly the Marble family becomes poisoned by guilt, and caught in a trap of secrets, fear and blackmail. Then Mrs Marble ensures that retribution comes in the most unexpected of ways...