The Charlotte Armstrong festival - Hardcover

Armstrong, Charlotte

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0698106962 ISBN 13: 9780698106963

Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975

Synopsis

Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (1905-1969) was a very popular American author who wrote 29 books under the name of Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine. She also worked for the New York Times advertising department and as a fashion reporter. For the thousands of fans of Charlotte Armstrong's mysterious disappearances, shadowy suspects, unexpected dangers, and cunningly craft clues, here is a trio of festive delights. Three hard-to-get thrillers by the famous "queen of suspense" are collected now in a single volume. First, "The Gift Shop (1966)" at the Los Angeles airport set the scene when a fatally wounded man drops an object into a toy pig on display. Second, "Lemon in the Basket (1967)" is how Rufus Tyler's wife describes the decidedly ordinary, beer-drinking member of the Tyler family, but the lemon doesn't really sour until the family is involved in an international political emergency. And, third, "The Balloon Man (1968)" brings us a struggling writer at odds with the Establishment who turns on with LSD and tunes in to violence against his innocent wife, Sherry, and their baby boy. When Sherry takes a room in a boardinghouse on the seedy fringe of Los Angeles' suburban sprawl, her husband's family tries to snatch the child in the middle of strange events happening at the boardinghouse.

Edition details

• Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0698106962
• ISBN 13: 9780698106963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 628