<p>Set against the seedy backdrop of 1960s Tangier, <em>The Wrong People</em> (1967) is the story of Arnold Turner, a repressed English schoolmaster on holiday in Morocco, where he meets Ewing Baird, a wealthy American expat with a dark secret. Ewing lavishly entertains him and even provides him with a young lover, but as Arnold becomes more and more involved with Ewing he realizes only too late that he has been lured into a dangerous trap &ndash; and his only chance of escape is by helping Ewing to carry out a sinister plan.</p><p>Drawing in part on the author&rsquo;s real-life efforts to expose the African sex trafficking trade, Robin Maugham&rsquo;s first explicitly gay-themed novel was both a critical and a commercial success, being reprinted several times &ndash; including in the important <em>Gay Modern Classics</em> series &ndash; and was optioned for a film version by Sal Mineo (<em>Rebel Without a Cause</em>). This edition includes a new foreword by Maugham&rsquo;s longtime partner William Lawrence.</p><p>&lsquo;I can only think of a handful of novelists who can play the reader like a hooked fish with comparable ingenuity and suppleness.&rsquo; &ndash;&nbsp;Francis King, <em>Sunday Telegraph</em></p><p>&lsquo;A very well-told story, every move nicely calculated and undeniably shuddery.&rsquo;&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;<em>Daily Telegraph</em></p><p>&lsquo;A gripping thriller. Storytelling at its best.&rsquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;<em>Sunday Express</em></p>