The Shivering Sands - Hardcover

Victoria Holt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385065884 ISBN 13: 9780385065887

Publisher: Doubleday, 1969

Synopsis

A young widow takes a job with a bizarre family at their seaside estate hoping to find her sister who had disappeared in the same area of Kent

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Caroline Verlaine, the lovely young widow of a world-famous pianist, comes to the legend-haunted Stacy estate to investigate the disappearance of her sister, Roma. As Caroline falls under the spell of the Stacy family and its macabre past, she becomes aware that her sister must have discovered some deadly secret amid the nearby ruins -- a secret that cost Roma her life. A secret that now threatens Caroline . . .

About the Author:

Born Eleanor Alice Burford, Victoria Holt was one of Britain's most prolific writers of historical romance. Always determined to keep her birth date and private life a closely guarded secret Holt wrote under many pseudonyms -- Jean Plaidy was one of her most popular, and was created when she lived near Plaidy Beach in Cornwall. Having written over ninety historical romances, she then began a new series of Gothic romances, the first of which, Mistress of Mellyn, appeared in 1961. The Shivering Sands was first published in 1969 as part of the same series. She died at sea in January 1993, somewhere between Greece and Port Said, Egypt.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0385065884
• ISBN 13: 9780385065887
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 305