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Storyline: The big house was a gloomy, sinister place. The woman inside was middle-aged, ailing and querulous. The woman outside was "going off her rocker," as the old lawyer insisted. "All those years of one idea eating away at her-to get her hands on some of that money and never succeeding-it's pushing her over the edge." The two women were sisters-in a deadlock of hatred and bitterness over a family will. Dana-young, attractive, and with a woman's inquisitiveness-was caught in the crossfire from both sides of the family quarrel. Was there something hidden, she wondered, behind this altercation, that might explain it all? Did the rambling old house and its ill-tempered owner veil some secret? Dana proposed to find out but what she actually discovered was murder-calculated and violent. |
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Please note that this is not a war story, though the term 'No Known Grave' is often applied to the missing war dead by The Imperial War Graves Commission. Story: The name rang a bell...at cocktail parties, at club dances, wherever people congregated. "Guilfoy...aren't they the people that...?" Kirk Halstead, returning to Rossiter after several years, knew about the Guilfoys, though he had been in Korea when Vance Guilfoy had returned home on leave unexpectedly one night and had battered his wife Gianetta to death with a heavy bronze candlestick. Then Vance Guilfoy had disappeared completely. A nation-wide man-hunt had not succeeded in finding him, alive or dead. Vance's fortune would go to his family, mother, brother and sister when the seven year period required for the legal presumption of death had elapsed. Kirk Halstead, clearing out the effects of his dead father's law office, was surprised to receive a visit from the entire Guilfoy clan. They had fallen on hard times, they wanted Vance's money badly. And just then, with the seven year period almost expired, a dramatic turn of events seemed to suggest that Vance was still alive. Evelyn Berckman, "a writer who can create an atmosphere of real horror", is at her best in this story of passion and greed, set in a small town which had tried to preserve its old fashioned exclusiveness... |
1959, Eyre & Spottiswoode, hbk 1975, Fingerprint Books, hbk |
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