War Factory

Politics & Social Sciences

FREMLIN, Celia

Harrisson, Tom

Social Sciences

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

With no crying

Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday

Good/Good; first edition.. normal library markings. Mylar jacket cover on book.

The parasite person

Mystery and suspense short stories depict ordinary people's normal home life disrupted by death, murder, and violence

A Lovely Day to Die and Other Stories

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

DOUBLEDAY

After her husband leaves her, Alice Saunders becomes a resident of a quaint yet bizarre boardinghouse and before long finds herself drawn into a vortex of a frightening, possibly fatal chain of events

Listening in the Dusk

When journalist Edwin Wakefield returns to England suspiciously unscathed by his Middle East captors, his two colleagues are still missing and presumed dead, but one returns safely and threatens to tell of Wakefield's fraudulent escape.

Dangerous Thoughts

1972 Suspense novel by British author Celia Fremlin.

Appointment with yesterday

Lippincott

Edgar Award Winner for Best Novel One of CrimeRead's 10 Best Reissued Mysteries of 2018 In this Edgar Award–winning thriller, a young housewife with two lively daughters and an endlessly crying baby battles domestic chaos as well as growing suspicions of the household's new lodger. Are Louise's fears the product of sleep deprivation, as her unsympathetic husband suggests, or is there really something sinister about the respectable-seeming schoolmistress? During the hours before dawn, Louise suspects, people with a precarious grip on sanity are likeliest to slip over the edge into madness — especially if there's someone ready to give them a push. Without spilling a drop of blood, this psychological thriller transforms everyday events and settings into the extraordinary, evoking an atmosphere of sheer terror. Crime novelist Andrew Taylor hailed author Celia Fremlin as "Britain's equivalent to Patricia Highsmith … her novels are domestic, subtle, penetrating — and quite horribly chilling." "Fremlin is a major mistress of insight and suspense." — The New York Times "Highly intelligent entertainment, beautifully written with wit and humor." — Frances Fyfield "It grips like grim death." — The Spectator "A classic, lost in plain sight. The Hours Before Dawn is a book that should have a permanent spot within the spate of modern domestic suspense and psychological thriller titles that it inspired." — Criminal Element

The Hours Before Dawn

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Dover Publications

"Beautifully played out to a startling and valid ending... Fremlin is here to stay as a major mistress of insight and suspense." — TheNew York Times "Fremlin puts a keen edge on the reader's curiosity and keeps it there... the writing is so good throughout." — TheTimes (London) Literary Supplement "An original entertainment, with unexpected turns and fine touches." — Kirkus Meg and Isabel were just girls when "Uncle Paul" married their older half-sister, Mildred, and he soon vanished from their lives upon his exposure as a bigamist and a murderer. Fifteen years later, Uncle Paul is about to be released from prison, and all three sisters are seized with dread at the prospect of his return. Their family holiday at the seaside village where Mildred and Uncle Paul once honeymooned becomes the setting for a tense drama of suspicion, betrayal, and revenge. Author Celia Fremlin received an Edgar Award for her suspenseful debut novel, The Hours Before Dawn. Her second thriller, Uncle Paul, evokes a similar atmosphere of menace as the paranoia of her characters — and readers — combine to form a mood of increasing tension. Rich in psychological insight and dark humor, the elegant, razor-sharp quality of Fremlin's writing provides page-turning excitement.

Uncle Paul (Dover Literature: Crime/Mystery/Thriller)

Poor Mary. Her husband is so stingy and critical that he makes the other neighborhood spouses look princely by comparison. All of the housewives on the block complain about their domineering husbands, their noisy children, and their dreary chores. The women's only consolation lies in getting together to vent their frustrations and share the latest gossip. But when Mary spies a man in a raincoat, lurking about the neighborhood, she develops a panicky obsession with the stranger that her friends can't soothe — and the frustrations of everyday life suddenly take a sinister turn. In this terrifying mystery classic, Edgar Award–winning novelist Celia Fremlin blends the desperation of 1960s domesticity with gripping suspense. "Women will identify and commiserate," noted Kirkus Reviews. The New Yorker characterized the novel as "married hell in a London suburb.... The outcome, as precisely charted by Miss Fremlin, is practically strangulating. A truly superior thriller."

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