Originally published in 1990, this is the cover of the 2012 edition by Seagull Books (the edition I own)
(19) MARTIN ROWSON – THE WASTELAND
T.S. Eliot meets Raymond Chandler – the Wasteland as detective noir.
“In Martin Rowson’s The Waste Land, private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist mysteries: namely T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland.”
And it’s a hoot.
Highlights include the section of the poem Death by Water as the cue for the archetypal criminal hit by cement shoes or the line “Who is the third who always walks besides you?” (which Eliot borrowed from the Gospels) as the classic ruse – met by the reaction “We’re not falling for that old trick”.
RATING:
X-TIER (WILD TIER)