Blindfold

by Lucille Fletcher

GOOD STANDARD USED CONDITION, MISSING DUST JACKET.

185 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1961

About the author

Lucille Fletcher is best known for her suspense classic Sorry, Wrong Number, originally a radio play, later a novel, TV play and motion picture. She has written extensively for both screen and television, and is the author of several successful mystery novels, including Blindfold, . . . And Presumed Dead, The Strange Blue Yawl and The Girl in Cabin B54. She is the author of the recently successful Broadway play Night Watch, which was also a motion picture starring Elizabeth Taylor. A native of Brooklyn and a graduate of Vassar College, Lucille Fletcher lived on the eastern shore of Maryland with her husband, novelist Douglass Wallop, until his death in 1985.

This author bio was adapted from the bio on the dust jacket of an Eighty Dollars to Stamford hardcover.

Reviews

[William · Rating 3 out of 5]

Loopy Cold War novel about a psychotherapist called in by a shadowy arm of the government to psychoanalyze a nuclear scientist who has gone insane and refuses to take a bag off of his head.
Unfortunately, the only mystery I really wanted solved in the book is never solved. At least Fletcher addresses it at the end with a sort of shrug-I-guess-we'll-never-know.

[Glenn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Absorbing, small scale and well-written Cold War espionage novel by the radio mystery legend. Fletcher constructs some very cinematic sequences throughout the book, especially the mysterious meeting in a hotel lobby. More of those would have made the short novel impressively riveting.

[Karina · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was slow moving - but I presume that’s the time period/writing style.
The story was good, took a little bit to get hooked, but it did happen.

[Missy · Rating 1 out of 5]

I have no idea what happened. Maybe because it was written in the 1960s but man, I struggled to maintain interest.