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Nelson Doubleday
Description
It was strictly a duty call and Pat Carroll wasn't looking forward to it one bit. But she was in Wales and her fiance's family lived nearby. He was dead now, killed in an accident, and Pat felt that since she was so close to his family's home she should pay her respects to the woman who would have been her mother-in-law. It would be a bore, but it was the least she could do. And, besides, it was only for a day or two. But the day or two dragged on and Pat found herself the helpless prisoner of a fanatic madwoman. Locked in a hideous room, she was trapped in an infinite eternity of a waking nightmare . . .'A great suspense shocker in the icy horror tradition of Psycho' Boston Herald
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An American woman has come to England following the death of her finacee. She had already decided before he died that she would have to break off the engagement since she did not love him but actually felt pity for him.When she arrives in England she buys an expensive sports car and sets off of
The book is supenseful and well written. But the idea that anyone would feel duty bound to visit a woman she never met who is the mother of a man she barely knew and had already decided to break it off with makes it difficult for the reader to buy into the story. Even the woman in the story knows it is very hard to explain her behavior; she wonders out loud to herself more than once why she is going to visit the mother. When the character doesn't understand what their motive is in the story, it's pretty difficult for the reader to understand it as well.
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explore England. She feels duty bound to visit her dead fiancee's mother who lives in Wales, though she has never met the woman.The book is supenseful and well written. But the idea that anyone would feel duty bound to visit a woman she never met who is the mother of a man she barely knew and had already decided to break it off with makes it difficult for the reader to buy into the story. Even the woman in the story knows it is very hard to explain her behavior; she wonders out loud to herself more than once why she is going to visit the mother. When the character doesn't understand what their motive is in the story, it's pretty difficult for the reader to understand it as well.
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Awards
Edgar Award (Nominee — Novel — 1962)
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
210 p.; 22 cm