A Cry in the Night: Dallas #13

By Monica Dean

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557261024
• ISBN13: 9781557261021
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Pioneer Communications Network, Inc.
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

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Little John Ross gets kidnapped from the hospital

"A Cry in the Night" is the 13th in a series of novelizations on the 1980s "Dallas" TV series. The books come from the Soaps & Serials imprint of Pioneer Communications Network, which also did similar novelizations of TV's "Guiding Light," "Days of Our Lives" and "Dallas" spinoff "Knots Landing," among others. There are at least 14 books in the "Dallas" series. This one covers the beginning of the third season of the show and the episodes "Whatever Happened to Baby John" Part 1 and 2. John Ross Ewing III has just been born, and Sue Ellen Ewing has very little interest in her child. She checks out of the hospital, while the fragile Baby John stays there, and largely withdraws to her bedroom at Southfork. Jeb Ames and Willie Joe Garr, meanwhile, have been released on parole (from those pesky murder charges regarding Julie Grey). They angrily try to get a meeting with J.R., but he keeps blowing them off. Cliff Barnes is keeping a close eye on the tiny Baby John, believing him to be his own son, not J.R.'s. Then, of course, Baby John is kidnapped from the hospital and everything goes haywire. Ames and Garr see this as an opportunity to rattle J.R.'s cage and demand "ransom" money from him, which J.R. secretly gathers. But the real kidnapper is someone else, not even Cliff, as Bobby assumes. (This novel covers some of the same ground as "The Women of Dallas" by Burt Hirschfeld, though these Soaps & Serials novels are not quite as detailed as the Hirschfeld books.)