The Unsuspected

By Charlotte Armstrong

Book Overview

The note discovered beside Rosaleen Wright's hanged body is full of reasons justifying her suicide--but it lacks her trademark vitality and wit, and, most importantly, her signature. So the note alone is far from enough to convince her best friend Jane that Rosaleen took her own life. Instead, Jane suspects Rosaleen's boss, Luther Grandison, a man famous for his work for stage and screen. To the world at large, he's powerful and charismatic, but Rosaleen's letters to Jane described a duplicitous, greedy man who would no doubt kill to protect his secrets.

Intent to uncover evidence against him, Jane takes a job as Grandison's secretary; her friend Francis soon joins her in the endeavor, gaslighting, manipulating, and impersonating his way into Grandison's inner circle. But as the duo draw closer to the truth, they come nearer still to their own grisly ends, tangling with a man whose disregard for human life is matched only by his skillful ability to continually avoid suspicion.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1613161239
• ISBN13: 9781613161234
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: American Mystery Classics
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Flawed but simply fascinating.

Really improbable if you think about it, but you'll be too involved to think. The central character, Grandy, is an extraordibnary, really a unique, creation and he dominated me as he did the other characters throughout the book. A mixture, if you can conceive it, of Alexander Woollcott and Fu Manchu (I apologize to the shades of each).

classic suspense

Charlotte Armstrong does suspense well. This book is one of her best. A famous, charismatic man may have committed murder. Two relatives of the victim enter his household under false pretenses to seek evidence. Their own lives are in peril as they try to gather clues.