Mon 25 May 2026
Archived Mystery Review: RAYMOND MASON – Someone and Felicia Warwick.
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RAYMOND MASON – Someone and Felicia Warwick. Gold Medal s1248. Paperback original; 1st printing, October 1962.
Felecia 19, is the daughter of the town drunk and is widely known as the town whore, although of the unpaid variety. The first 14 chapters all end with same ominous harbinger of events to come: “Someone was going to kill Felicia Warwick.”
This is a detective story, one in which the victim is known far in advance. Who among her man lovers and those (occasionally) rejected will be the one who kills her? This is also a novel about a small town filled with jealousies and hatreds, mostly sexual in nature, and it has a nifty ending.
— Reprinted from Mystery.File.3, February 1988.
May 25th, 2026 at 2:21 pm
I know nothing about the author, Raymond Mason. This may be his only novel of mystery or crime fiction. His is a name just a little too common to narrow down to focus on one person. (I no longer have access to my copy of Al Hubin’s CRIME FICTION).
My review of it makes the novel seem rather off-putting. but the mention of a “nifty ending” makes me unsure about that as well.
Anyone with any addition information is welcome to be heard from. (But I wonder if anyone else reading this has actually read it.)