A fragment of fear
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- ISBN: 9781416540489 (trade pbk.) :
- ISBN: 1416540482 (trade pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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xii, 175 p. ; 22 cm. - Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster trade paperback ed.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2007.
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Subject: | Journalists -- Fiction British -- Italy -- Fiction Threat (Psychology) -- Fiction |
Genre: | Suspense fiction. Mystery fiction. Psychological thriller. |
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Tatla Lake Branch | BIN (Text) | 33923005361138 | Mystery | Volume hold | Available | - |
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Summary:
"In a recuperative trip in Italy after a car accident, reporter and novelist James Compton is witness to the discovery of a murder victim, a woman who had been vacationing at the same hotel. Lucy Dawson seemed like a gentle old lady, and so the motive for her death appeared to be unmeditated assault. But when he returns to England and makes a benign inquiry into her background, Compton receives a note warning him to leave the past alone -- a note clearly written on his own typewriter, though his apartment shows no sign of a break-in. Unable to resist pursuing the unfinished story, Compton's own investigation reveals a sinister side to Lucy Dawson and a cold-blooded conspiracy she may have helped to perpetrate while alive. Suddenly Compton finds a dangerous net closing in around him: threatening phone calls, terrifying invasions of privacy, and no way of proving to the police that anyone is responsible but himself."--Publisher description.