Not To Disturb

Under the personal supervision of Lister, the Baron's incomparable butler, the servants make their own, highly lucrative, preparations for the tragedy.

The night is long, but morning will bring a *crime passionnel* of outstanding attraction and endless possibilities.

Read with these parallels in mind, Not to Disturb offers fresh laughter and acerbic insight into conventional ways of writing about the hypocrisies of master-servant relationships.

... Not to Disturb has the cleverness to entertain and the intelligence to provoke thought; but, finally, its philosophical mysteries look suspiciously like pretenses, and the book leaves the annoying as well as the stimulating after-effects of legerdemain.'

[2] Martin Stannard[1] records that 'Too many of the London reviews of Not To Disturb had been disappointing', and that in America it had had an 'indifferent reception'.