Book description
I> is a story of ordinary people engulfed in frightening events. It
will challenge even the most astute. I>begins when two people
conspire to steal a fortune in cash. It ends in double murder. The
payroll of the Jauncey Engineering plant is missing. According to the
guard, found bound and gagged at the scene, two trusted employees,
Harold Graham and Yvonne Marshall, are responsible for the crime, and
the police proceed as if this were just another payroll theft. To crime
reporter Quinn it sounds like the usual story of a married man and a
younger woman who plot to steal the money in order to finance a new life
together. He and his friend, insurance assessor Piper, question the
missing woman's husband and the missing man's wife and her sister. Soon
they are patching scattered clues together, and Quinn sets out to
investigate the possibility that Yvonne may have already double-crossed
Harold. Then the first corpse is discovered. All clues point in the same
direction, but when the second body is found in a watery ditch, that
theory must also be discarded. Another hypothesis is then proposed and
painstakingly investigated. It, too, turns into a blind alley. A third
cul-de-sac, equally convincing and just as false, makes the action by
turns frustrating or suspenseful, but always gripping. And Quinn, who
wanted only a human-interest angle for his column, becomes more and more
intimately involved in the case. A telephone call from the police
provides him with further evidence and leads Quinn reluctantly but
inevitably to the conclusion of this fast-paced novel.
The Quiet Woman<The Quiet Woman <
I> is a story of ordinary people engulfed in
frightening events. It will challenge even the most astute.
I>begins when two people conspire to steal a fortune in cash. It
ends in double murder. The payroll of the Jauncey Engineering plant
is missing. According to the guard, found bound and gagged at the
scene, two trusted employees, Harold Graham and Yvonne Marshall, are
responsible for the crime, and the police proceed as if this were
just another payroll theft. To crime reporter Quinn it sounds like
the usual story of a married man and a younger woman who plot to
steal the money in order to finance a new life together. He and his
friend, insurance assessor Piper, question the missing woman's
husband and the missing man's wife and her sister. Soon they are
patching scattered clues together, and Quinn sets out to investigate
the possibility that Yvonne may have already double-crossed Harold.
Then the first corpse is discovered. All clues point in the same
direction, but when the second body is found in a watery ditch, that
theory must also be discarded. Another hypothesis is then proposed
and painstakingly investigated. It, too, turns into a blind alley. A
third cul-de-sac, equally convincing and just as false, makes the
action by turns frustrating or suspenseful, but always gripping. And
Quinn, who wanted only a human-interest angle for his column,
becomes more and more intimately involved in the case. A telephone
call from the police provides him with further evidence and leads
Quinn reluctantly but inevitably to the conclusion of this
fast-paced novel. The Quiet Woman<The Quiet Woman <
