Dark Dream

by Robert Martin

When detective Jim Bennett first laid eyes on Marianne Donati he knew he would never see a more beautiful human body. But then Bennett looked at her face. His blood turned to ice. Marianne's features were ugly, scarred, pitted. No man, he thought, could ever love this woman. Yet Bennett came to learn that Marianne Donati was a woman who attracted all kinds of men ... and vicious murder.

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1951

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(1908-1976)

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Reviews

[Susan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Jim Bennett is the Cleveland bureau chief of a national detective agency who finds himself with two different cases to work. Someone is taking shots at a local lawyer as he plays on the local country club's golf course, and something is causing customers at a posh local beauty salon to get mild, but painful, burns while under treatment. But Wheatville is a small town, and the people involved in both cases interact and have relationships hidden from Bennett, who soon finds himself with two murders to solve. He takes a lot of physical abuse, is approached by more than one local woman with something other than violence in mind, and finally brings the mysteries to an unexpected conclusion. The melancholy tone and the violence turned me off to some degree.