Adam's Fall - Book Two: Three Female-Led Tales of Dark Feminin...

Book-Two in the “Adam’s Fall” collection from Rafael Menton brings us three stories of dark and controlling femininity. First up we have “The Manservant”. Wrongly accused and imprisoned, divorced from his wife and estranged from his daughters, a former teacher struggles with depression after his release and the knowledge kicks in that he is not only friendless and jobless but about to made homeless by his local council in London. Which is when he sees an ad seeking a man for a live-in position in affluent Blackheath. An ad run by an African couple who are looking for a man JUST like him. And on a long-term basis. To become… “THE MANSERVANT”. Mr Menton’s second tale is “A Long and Permanent Fall”. The wife of an affluent man leaves him for another after twenty-years and tells him by way of a note explaining they are transferring to her company’s office in Berlin and have already flown to Germany. Devastated by this totally unexpected bombshell he finds himself alone in his Dulwich home with the live-in East African housekeeper his wife had employed a year or so before leaving. A large and powerful woman who has plans for him… Plans that do not include his freedom! Finally, we have “Bad Move”. A good cop with sexual demons, who is about to go bad, comes face to face with a woman who has been in that condition for a long time. A wealthy Arab woman with secrets of the most repellent kind he is about to try and blackmail. Only to find he will be the one who finds himself at her mercy and that of her two female assistants… And in a far more permanent way. This edition comes complete with illustrated chapter-headings. If you enjoy stories that trigger the darker erotic areas of the imagination and like tales of assertive women that are believable as well as dark, you are likely to delight in this collection of stories from a female-led perspective on the subject of crime, horror, the occult and the bondage of man to woman. Rafael Menton is a Professor of English Literature with a retro passion for the early to mid-twentieth-century fiction of mystery, crime, suspense, and horror with erotic undertones; ranging from Doyle and Blackwood and on to Rohmer – as well as sometimes indulging in a more contemporary take of his own on the work of those masters.

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