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Stairway to an Empty Room / Terror Lurks in Darkness
STAIRWAY TO AN EMPTY ROOM
Monica Marshall s sister Biddy has been murdered by her husband. Biddy has a daughter, Winifred, and with the husband on death row, Monica agrees to take charge of her. Winifred is anxious to leave the house where she has been living with Biddy. The house and the woman who runs it seem so unpleasant to Monica. But nothing prepares her for Stevens. He is managing a mountain retreat where Monica takes her new charge for a getaway--she hates him immediately. Strangely enough, Winifred recognizes the couple in another cabin. Soon Monica realizes that there is something very strange going on here. Her brakes fail ... later she almost drowns in the lake. And Stevens is becoming very protective of young Winifred. What do all these people have to do with Biddy s death, and what is really going on here?...
TERROR LURKS IN DARKNESS
Kitty has the fright of her life one night when she takes what she is told is a short cut and ends up on a dead end street in the rain. And to make matters worse, there is a savage dog outside her car, causing her to wreck the front end trying to avoid it. Fortunately, the owner of the dog appears and calms the dog, then drives her home. But imagine Kitty s shock when she finds out that Sunny, the woman who told her about the short cut, is found dead later that night on the same road, her throat savaged. Of course, everyone hated Sunny, but that doesn't explain her strange death. And now Kitty s roommate, Ardis, has gone missing ... and two of her friends are asking her to lie about what she knows. No wonder inspector Doyle doesn't believe her story she has no idea what to believe herself!
Monica Marshall s sister Biddy has been murdered by her husband. Biddy has a daughter, Winifred, and with the husband on death row, Monica agrees to take charge of her. Winifred is anxious to leave the house where she has been living with Biddy. The house and the woman who runs it seem so unpleasant to Monica. But nothing prepares her for Stevens. He is managing a mountain retreat where Monica takes her new charge for a getaway--she hates him immediately. Strangely enough, Winifred recognizes the couple in another cabin. Soon Monica realizes that there is something very strange going on here. Her brakes fail ... later she almost drowns in the lake. And Stevens is becoming very protective of young Winifred. What do all these people have to do with Biddy s death, and what is really going on here?...
TERROR LURKS IN DARKNESS
Kitty has the fright of her life one night when she takes what she is told is a short cut and ends up on a dead end street in the rain. And to make matters worse, there is a savage dog outside her car, causing her to wreck the front end trying to avoid it. Fortunately, the owner of the dog appears and calms the dog, then drives her home. But imagine Kitty s shock when she finds out that Sunny, the woman who told her about the short cut, is found dead later that night on the same road, her throat savaged. Of course, everyone hated Sunny, but that doesn't explain her strange death. And now Kitty s roommate, Ardis, has gone missing ... and two of her friends are asking her to lie about what she knows. No wonder inspector Doyle doesn't believe her story she has no idea what to believe herself!
278 pages, Paperback
Published October 28, 2019
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Dolores Hitchens
62 books32 followersJulia Clara Catharine Dolores Birk Olsen Hitchens, better known as Dolores Hitchens, was an American mystery novelist who wrote prolifically from 1938 until her death. She also wrote under the pseudonyms D.B. Olsen, Dolan Birkley and Noel Burke.
Hitchens collaborated on five railroad mysteries with her second husband, Bert Hitchens, a railroad detective, and also branched out into other genres in her writing, including Western stories. Many of her mystery novels centered around a spinster character named Rachel Murdock.
Hitchens wrote Fool's Gold, the 1958 novel adapted by Jean-Luc Godard for his film Bande à part (Band of Outsiders, 1964).
Hitchens collaborated on five railroad mysteries with her second husband, Bert Hitchens, a railroad detective, and also branched out into other genres in her writing, including Western stories. Many of her mystery novels centered around a spinster character named Rachel Murdock.
Hitchens wrote Fool's Gold, the 1958 novel adapted by Jean-Luc Godard for his film Bande à part (Band of Outsiders, 1964).
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November 13, 2022
Stairway to an Empty Room
1951
I read this before and loved it. This time I found it too long. Apparently I didn't when I read the old smelling 1951 hardcover.
Terror Lurks in Darkness
From 1953
Starts with some good fearful action, as Dolores Hitchens can excel at. I loved her The Watcher, parts of it, anyway, were so suspenseful and gripping . This was pretty good but I did not love it.
As far as my ratings go, 4 is a wide spectrum, ranging from I just liked it to I like it so much you could call it love.
This was more the former.
1951
I read this before and loved it. This time I found it too long. Apparently I didn't when I read the old smelling 1951 hardcover.
Terror Lurks in Darkness
From 1953
Starts with some good fearful action, as Dolores Hitchens can excel at. I loved her The Watcher, parts of it, anyway, were so suspenseful and gripping . This was pretty good but I did not love it.
As far as my ratings go, 4 is a wide spectrum, ranging from I just liked it to I like it so much you could call it love.
This was more the former.
September 30, 2019
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