The Echoing Shore

by Robert Martin

The echoing ghostly strains of the Blue Danube had summoned Pearce from his fishing cabin to the lodge on the opposite shore of Big Bear Lake in the Michigan woods. Once a symbol of their first meeting and Pearce's lost love for Ann Pitts, the tune had suddenly become a signal for help.

  Or was it a call to trap Pearce as a murderer? For the highly desirable Ann, whose rejected suitor Pearce was known to be, was honeymooning at the lodge—or had been—until that morning she found her husband murdered in his bed. And Pearce was the obvious suspect!

  This is the tense story of a man trapped by circumstantial evidence with only the briefest time to clear himself before the law closes in. It's the story of a fickle love and a close friend, of a deputy sheriff and a casual word that reveals a criminal. It's a story that races forward to a smashing climax—the sort of spine-tingling denouement readers of Robert Martin's stories expect and inevitably find in the closing pages of each of his best-selling novels.

216 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1955

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(1908-1976)

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Reviews

[Paperback Papa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Robert Martin also wrote as Lee Roberts in the 1950s and 60s. He gained a good reputation for pulpy, crime/noir novels that were a lot of fun. In this one from 1955, a man is madly in love with a woman who spurns him and marries someone else. When the woman's husband is murdered on their honeymoon, the spurned man naturally becomes the prime suspect. Every scrap of evidence points right at him. But the author makes sure the reader knows the accused man is innocent. The fun of the book is in how the truth worms its way to the surface little by little. In the last few pages, all sorts of tumblers start falling into place and, right at the end, the lock springs open and the real killer is revealed.

The novel is an easy read at 150 pages. I liked the wilderness setting of cabins way out in the boonies. There's a fog shrouded lake, mysterious figures creeping around in the woods, and a handful of characters that all have secrets and agendas, none of which are wholesome. I enjoyed the book very much and highly recommend it.

[Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyed the book and (ave been reading the Jim bennett series in order. This is listed as one but Jim bennett does not appear at all. Still was an enjoyable read