Darkness of Slumber

Alternate Titles

• ITALIAN March 23rd 1986 - Profondo sonno / Publisher, Mondadori Il Giallo Mondadori / #1938, Paperback, 175 pages Author(s)

Description

"***The ghost of a woman whose living body haunts her former husband and his second wife, her adoring brother, her friends - is brought back to life by a miracle of modern science.*** Eve Minary's dark fragile beauty concealed a twisted mind - concealed too, dangerous knowledge. With an extraordinary tensity of brooding horror, the story moved rapidly to Murder; and young Doctor Marc Castleman has to act fast to save his professional reputation."***--From the publisher's notes 1944.***

Description

Put death to the weird music of insanity. Take murder in the madhouse. Add a perfect wife about to lose her husband because his first wife may return from a living grave. Mix seven strangely assorted lives weaving dark patterns of political intrigue and violence -- and let a young doctor, with a reputation to clear, uncover the sequence of events behind the too sudden madness of a beautiful woman. Acclaimed as one of the "Ten Best" by the New York Times Book Review, here is an engrossing mystery of sinister emotions and pounding action, told with mounting tension and terror.--Goodreads / Oct '46 PB bk cvr

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Series Statement

• Pocket Books #402

Other Editions

• Darkness of Slumber: A Mystery (Complete & Unabridged) More than 149,500,000 Pocket Books have been sold.PaperbackPocket Books of Canada, Limited1946-10-01
• Darkness of slumberJ.B. Lippincott Company1944-01-01