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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0007I1IDS
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: Berkley
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

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.