Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
Cover artist: Carl Bobertz
Yours for: $6
- Uh ... I don't think she's "swimming."
- Ross Macdonald had a novel called "The Drowning Pool" ... You should take titling lessons from him, Mary.
- "... as the rare yellow octopus sucked the last ounce of life from Judith's brain."
- Just one question: if she is safe "in the solitude of a padlocked bedroom," then how could "her private terror" spread "to all around her?" No One Is Around Her.
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Only three of us went to the inquest the next day, Phil, Bill, and myself. For Judith was sick. She had worked herself into a fever, I suppose because she always hated the idea of death.
"I suppose." Well, thanks for the not-at-all medieval diagnosis, doc.
~RP
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