Reviews for The Valley of the Fox

The average rating for The Valley of the Fox based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-01-01 00:00:00 Martin Graham I didn't realize this was the forth book in a series until I'd started to read it. It started out good, and I remember thinking I'd go back and start from the beginning. But I ended up not liking the story or characters. It just seemed to stall out and then all this 'too weird' stuff.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-08-13 00:00:00 Thomas Price This novel is a sequel to "The Oxford Gambit," though it stands on its own. It is an odd but interesting book about a man on the run from what he judges to be his former employers--the British espionage establishment--following the murder of his wife. The book shares a lineage with Geoffrey Household and P. M. Hubbard: the English chase novel. The man, Peter Marlowe, goes to ground in a self-contained patch of forest that is located on the grounds of an estate owned by an American heiress, Alice Troy. The heiress is a remarkable character, as is Marlowe's preteen step-daughter, who appears to be autistic, and who joins him on the run. The book casts a strong spell because, as Jim Thompson once said about crime novels, "all is not as it seems." The characters are both attractive and, perhaps, psychologically damaged beyond easy repair. The book, like its setting, exists as a self-contained world in which standards of behavior are stretched well beyond the norm. I liked it, though it also frustrated me because it is a tragic book in a couple of respects with, perhaps, a bit of light in the future.