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A carregar... Beast in View (1955)por Margaret Millar
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This thriller/mystery isn't of the style I generally prefer (too dark & creepy) but it is extremely well written and the ending came as a complete surprise to me. ( ) El mundo puede llegar a ser terrorífico más allá de las paredes de una habitación de hotel. Helen Clarvoe tenía muy claro que su seguridad dependía de aquella reclusión voluntaria, hasta que recibe una llamada estremecedora: Evelyn, una supuesta ex compañera de colegio, le cuenta que ha tenido una visión onírica en la que Helen aparece mutilada tras haber sufrido un terrible accidente. Aterrorizada y confusa, Helen decide pedir ayuda a su viejo amigo Paul Blackshear para que investigue quién es Evelyn y por qué ha pretendido asustarla con dicha llamada. Paul, que decide echarle una mano, pronto comienza a seguir pistas que le conducen a un submundo de delincuencia, abuso de drogas y pornografía, algo que no solo implica la desconocida Evelyn, sino también a su propia amiga Helen. Didn't quite live up the billing. Pretty plain split personality story- it did have a good / surprising to me twist. I enjoyed the lead characters - the recluse in the hotel who doesn't go out and seems to have shut out the world at 30. Not sure why the old lawyer is crazy about her... (?). And the Evelyn dodge is ok. I will try another by her because I was expecting her to become a favorite and this is "one of her best" but ... pedestrian. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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A psychological thriller by a mistress of suspense at the top of her form and 1956 winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award.What starts with a crank call from an old school chum sets the lonely, aloof, financially comfortable Miss Helen Clarvoe on a path as predictable only as madness. Lured from her rooms in a second-rate residential Hollywood hotel, she finds herself stranded in the more perilous terrain of extortion, pornography, vengeance, and ultimately murder. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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