Highsmith, Patricia
Summary: Two women die under similar circumstances--Melchior Kimmel killed his wife, Walter Stackhouse did not kill his. Lieutenant Corby, investigating the Stackhouse case, links it with the unsolved Kimmel murder. Then begins a nightmare for the two suspected men. Corby's wish to get at the truth becomes perverted by his ambition into an almost insane desire to extract confessions. Soon all three are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGSummary: Four suspense novels of the 1940s. These four stories examine isolated crimes within society that not only breed murder but destructive suspicions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2015