Fearful Lovers

Five stories which play with mystery and suspense, often with supernatural overtones, and which individually and collectively give pleasure both in their stories and the craft of the telling. There's the blind man who gives a perfect description of the murderer he's never seen, the murder preserved in film for over 50 years, the registrar of births who has to make an entry for the devil's child, the lady caught in a dull marriage who thinks she's in touch with a heroic man from the past, and - it is Westall, remember - a magician turned cat to protect the girl he's not allowed to see.