The Blue Suit: A Memoir of Crime
1995, Houghton Mifflin Co.
From the dust jacket: "...is a story about the absence of identity. Born in West Yorkshire, Richard Rayner had a peripatetic childhood, until, it seemed, he found some sense of place when he attended Cambridge University in the mid-70s. But far from affording him security, Cambridge, combined with the study of philosophy and an obsession with books, was the setting for the start of a bizarre life of crime. Mounting debts propelled Rayner into a series of frightening, foolish, and hilarious adventures."
My comments: Rayner became a small time crook, following the footsteps of his father. I'd call his adventures 'madcap' or better yet, adventures of a mad person, and I didn't think them at all funny. Nevertheless, the memoir is worth reading, and the book kept my interest all the way to the last page. The writing itself is excellent.
