Brighton Rock summary
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- Created on: 16-05-17 10:03
Fred Hale, a newspaper employee, is murdered in mysterious circumstances by Pinkie, the recently appointed leader of a Brighton protection racket. Ida Arnold, who briefly got to know Fred while visiting Brighton for the day, is suspicious when the cause of death is recorded as ‘natural causes’, and she begins her own investigation into what happened. She meets Rose, a Catholic waitress from a poor family who is being courted by Pinkie. Rose is a potential witness to the murder: she has come to realise that Fred Hale did not come into Snow’s, the café where she works, on the day he was killed; that it was in fact one of Pinkie’s henchmen, Spicer, posing as Hale. But desperate to escape her situation by any means necessary, Rose refuses to believe that Pinkie’s interest in her stems purely from his desire to silence a potential witness to his crime.
Spicer decides to retire from the gang and asks Pinkie for a pay off. Afraid that he might ‘squeal’, Pinkie arranges for another, considerably more powerful Brighton gang, Colleoni’s mob, to kill Spicer at the race course; but Pinkie is also attacked. Spicer manages to escape, and so Pinkie pushes him over the banister at their lodgings. His solicitor…
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