A review by jereco1962
Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark

4.0

A delightful comic novella. Using an actual murder case as her jumping-off point, Muriel Spark posits what might have happened to the 7th Earl of Lucan after his disappearance in 1974. While she sticks to the historical record for details pre-1974, from the point of his disappearance on, it's all outrageous conjecture, in which an artisan who refurbishes antiques teams up with a false stigmatic-turned-psychiatrist, a physician from Africa, an old friend of the murderer and the daughter of one of those who helped the murder escape to track him down 25 years later. But wait, is there one murderer or two? Charming and very funny, despite its sad origin story.