Shamus Frazer (1912–1966)

I'll have to re-read and then write a proper review.
I had an elementary school experience, witnessing a "crime", and this story connects me to that memory. This frozen feeling of not being able to go back and help. As an adult no problem, I have the skills now, but as a child I was at the mercy of my terror and the body's reaction. My friend and I have "survivor's guilt" about it.

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"Reading Acorned Hog. Shamus Frazer is immensely entertaining - he and I might have a little in common I feel. No need for modesty in a diary. Now I want to write something more fantastic about a girl called Gabriella." (Diary entry, 9 September 1933.) (Pym, A very private eye. Macmillan, 1984. p. 26.)