Payment Deferred

Though C.S.Forester is famous for his Hornblower Saga and Iconic classics like the The Good Shepherd and The General yet this is one of his initial novels which explores the psychological side of humans.

In Payment Deferred set in 1926, William Marble, a bank clerk living in south London with his wife Annie and their two children, is desperately worried about money and is in grave danger of losing his house and job. An unexpected visit by a young relative with an inheritance tempts William to commit a heinous crime