A Little Treachery is enacted in a quaint-looking rural cottage in idyllic surroundings. Idyllic at least they seem to Clem and Catherine Hare, two elderly spinsters who have just obtained it ‘for a song’ through the offices of a friend of a...
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the...
We all have our value in one way or another. We all fit in somewhere and can be used as part of a clever scheme. Make it a game (after all this is intended as a fun-book). What makes you invaluable? Why should someone labor to maneuver you in some...
The Blackboard Jungle, Evan Hunter’s hard-hitting novel about juvenile delinquency, aroused a storm of controversy over the vocational-school system in America today. His publishers feel that Second Ending is a strong successor to that book in...