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Carregando... Beast in View (1955)de Margaret Millar
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This thriller/mystery isn't of the style I generally prefer (too dark & creepy) but it is extremely well written and the ending came as a complete surprise to me. ( ) El mundo puede llegar a ser terrorífico más allá de las paredes de una habitación de hotel. Helen Clarvoe tenía muy claro que su seguridad dependía de aquella reclusión voluntaria, hasta que recibe una llamada estremecedora: Evelyn, una supuesta ex compañera de colegio, le cuenta que ha tenido una visión onírica en la que Helen aparece mutilada tras haber sufrido un terrible accidente. Aterrorizada y confusa, Helen decide pedir ayuda a su viejo amigo Paul Blackshear para que investigue quién es Evelyn y por qué ha pretendido asustarla con dicha llamada. Paul, que decide echarle una mano, pronto comienza a seguir pistas que le conducen a un submundo de delincuencia, abuso de drogas y pornografía, algo que no solo implica la desconocida Evelyn, sino también a su propia amiga Helen. Didn't quite live up the billing. Pretty plain split personality story- it did have a good / surprising to me twist. I enjoyed the lead characters - the recluse in the hotel who doesn't go out and seems to have shut out the world at 30. Not sure why the old lawyer is crazy about her... (?). And the Evelyn dodge is ok. I will try another by her because I was expecting her to become a favorite and this is "one of her best" but ... pedestrian. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Hailed as one of the greatest psychological mysteries ever written and winner of the 1956 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Novel, Beast in View remains as freshly sinister today as the day it was first published. Thirty-year-old Helen Clarvoe is scared and all alone. The heiress of a small fortune, she is resented by her mother and, to a lesser degree, her brother. The only person who seemingly cares for her is the family's attorney, Paul Blackshear. A shut-in, Helen maintains her residence in an upscale hotel downtown. But passive-aggressive resentment isn't the only thing hounding Helen Clarvoe. A string of bizarre and sometimes threatening prank phone calls has upended her spinster's routine. Increasingly threatened, she turns to a reluctant Mr. Blackshear to get to the bottom of these strange calls. Blackshear is doubtful of their seriousness but he quickly realizes that he is in the midst of something far more sinister than he thought possible. As he unravels the mystery of the calls the identity behind them slowly emerges, predatory and treacherous. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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