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Loading... The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Storiesby Mary Higgins Clark
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Entertaining. Edge of the seat crowd pleaser. 1) Anastasia is a psychological thriller set in modern England with a throwback to the reign of Charles I. It gives insight into the English Civil War and the passions it aroused as well as a phenomenon of possession. 2)Terror stalks the Class Reunion is a scary scenario of a kidnapping of a former classmate by a deranged obsessed man. 3) Lucky Day is short but with a real surprise ending. It's about an elderly man befriended by a lady whose lucky day ends in his death, and she suspects her husband! 4)Double Vision is about twins, one of whom is murdered by a disappointed actor. He then finds he had killed the wrong one and comes back on the anniversary of her death to get the other. His madness and her skill in acting save the day (barely). 5)The Lost Angel about a little girl kidnapped by her criminal father to enhance his con schemes with his girlfriend is very touching. It is written from the view of the girl and her frantic mother. All comes to a head on Christmas Eve in New York City. All these tales are gripping and scary, educational about criminal thinking and narrow escapes. My favorites were Lucky Day and Lost Angel. 0.019 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0671701231, Mass Market Paperback)In the short novel The Anastasia Syndrome, prominent historical writer Judith Chase is living in London and preparing for her marriage to Sir Stephen Hallett, expected to become England's next Prime Minister. Orphaned during World War II, Judith wants to trace her origins. In this quest, she goes to a renowned psychiatrist and becomes the victim of his experiments in regression. When a woman in a dark green cape sets off bombs in London, Sir Stephen and Judith are faced with an intangible, mysterious force threatening their very existence.Obsessive love is the subject of Terror Stalks the Class Reunion; psychic contact with a dead twin sister is the only defense against a murder in Double Vision; Lucky Day, compared to O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi, begins premonition of imminent danger; in The Lost Angel, mother follows her intuition in a harrowing search for her missing child. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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