The Accounting

Book by Bruce Marshall

The Accounting

First edition (UK) with original title

Author| Bruce Marshall
Publisher| Constable

Publication date

| 1958
Publication place| Scotland
Media type| Print (hardback)
Pages| 285
Preceded by| Girl in May (1956)
Followed by| A Thread of Scarlet (1959)

The Accounting is a 1958 novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall, published as The Bank Audit in the UK.[1]

## Plot summary

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The scene of this novel is Paris, where the branch of a well-known London bank is being audited. A normally routine affair, this year's audit is different—the auditors have reason to believe that there may be fraud or embezzlement at play. The auditors in the story suspect this after hearing a few words at a Paris nightclub.

The readers' attention is turned to each player, including the bank officials and overseers of the audit, but mostly to the unhappy junior and senior auditors, each a prisoner of his own private conflicts and aspirations, and each seeing the discovery and proving of the fraud as his chance for promotion.

The novel makes the task of auditing understandable and delves into the hearts of those who make business their life's work.[2]

## References

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1. ^ I libri di Bruce Marshall. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
2. ^ Marshall, B: The Accounting Houghton Mifflin 1958.

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Works by Bruce Marshall

Novels|

* A Thief in the Night (ca 1918)
* This Sorry Scheme (1924)
* The Stooping Venus (1926)
* Teacup Terrace (1926)
* And There Were Giants (1927)
* The Other Mary (1927)
* High Brows (1929)
* The Little Friend (1929)
* The Rough House, a possibility (1930)
* Children of This Earth (1930)
* Father Malachy's Miracle (1931)
* Prayer for the Living (1934)
* The Uncertain Glory (1935)
* Canon to the Right of Them (1936)
* Luckypenny (1937)
* Delilah Upside Down, a Tract, with a Thrill (1941)
* Yellow Tapers for Paris (1943)
* The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith (1944)
* George Brown's Schooldays (1946)
* Vespers in Vienna (1947)
* To Every Man a Penny (1949)
* The Fair Bride (1953)
* Only Fade Away (1954)
* Girl in May (1956)
* The Accounting (1958)
* A Thread of Scarlet (1959)
* The Divided Lady (1960)
* A Girl from Lübeck (1962)
* The Month of the Falling Leaves (1963)
* Father Hilary's Holiday (1965)
* The Bishop (1970)
* The Black Oxen (1972)
* Urban the Ninth (1973)
* Operation Iscariot (1974)
* Marx the First (1975)
* Peter the Second (1976)
* The Yellow Streak (1977)
* Prayer for a Concubine (1978)
* Flutter in the Dovecote (1986)
* A Foot in the Grave (1987)
* An Account of Capers (1988)

Non-fiction|

* The White Rabbit (1953)
* Thoughts of My Cats (1954)

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