Death wears a beauty mask : and other stories / Mary Higgins Clark.

By:

Clark, Mary Higgins

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.Description: viii, 290 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9781501110993 :
1501110993

Contained works:

Clark, Mary Higgins. Stowaway
Clark, Mary Higgins. When the bough breaks
Clark, Mary Higgins. Voices in the coalbin
Clark, Mary Higgins. Cape Cod masquerade
Clark, Mary Higgins. Definitely, a crime of passion
Clark, Mary Higgins. Man next door
Clark, Mary Higgins. Haven't we met before?
Clark, Mary Higgins. Funniest thing has been happening lately
Clark, Mary Higgins. Tell-tale purr

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Short stories

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Contents:

Death wears a beauty mask -- Stowaway -- When the bough breaks -- Voices in the coalbin -- The Cape Cod masquerade -- Definitely, a crime of passion -- The man next door -- Haven't we met before? -- The funniest thing has been happening lately -- The tell-tale purr.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Fiction	Adult Fiction	FIC CLARK	Available		36748002340117

Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A collection of short stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark, including the never-before-published novella Death Wears a Beauty Mask .

From Clark's first-ever published story (1956's "Stowaway"), to classic tales featuring Alvirah and Willy, My Gal Sunday and many more, Death Wears a Beauty Mask and Other Stories gives readers the chance to revisit the short story highlights from the "Queen of Suspense." The jewel of this collection is the novella showcasing the dazzling and dangerous world of high fashion in 1970s New York City: Death Wears a Beauty Mask , which Mary began in 1974 and put aside to write Where Are the Children , the book that launched her career. Mary returned to Death Wears a Beauty Mask nearly forty years later and the result is spectacular.

Featuring the same chills and heart-pounding drama we've come to expect from a Mary Higgins Clark title, and including an exclusive author's introduction, Death Wears a Beauty Mask and Other Stories is a spine-tingling read and glimpse into the evolution of the remarkable career of the "Queen of Suspense."

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Publishers Weekly Review

Tony Award-nominated actress Maxwell, the narrator of many of bestseller Clark's audiobooks, reads the author's informative introduction and seven of the eight short stories in this collection, as well as the title novella. All of the shorts are entertaining and well performed, but a few of them stand out. In "Stowaway," first published in 1958, a stewardess on a flight from an occupied (and only vaguely identified) country hides a young member of the underground from a brutal police commissioner, and Maxwell presents her with a teeth-clenched, nerves-of-steel delivery while portraying the commissioner, in all his unpleasantness, with a snarling Russian accent. "A Crime of Passion" features former U.S. president Henry Parker Britland IV and his wife, Sandra, who give off a Nick and Nora vibe as they try to defend his secretary of state from a murder charge. As for the one entry not read by Maxwell, "The Tell-Tale Purr" is a goof on the famous Poe short story. Petkoff does a splendid job of giving voice to the effete, homicidal narrator, but the story and its final joke are about as thin as, well, a cat's whisker. A Simon & Schuster hardcover. (Apr.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.