Jacket Notes: What this Thriller is about--
- Horrifying EVENTS of a last desperate hour on an Italian island which for four years have haunted an honest but guilt-ridden young American... A valuable PAINTING that by turning up in New York leads to still another murder in Italy... A nightmare memory of a beloved FACE, petrified with fear, staring into some nameless terror... A SECRET HIDING-PLACE... A mysterious BETRAYAL which results in wholesale killing and makes life unbearable for an innocent family... A GIRL'S PICTURE staring up from a broken frame at two men locked in a DEATH STRUGGLE... Three lines of HANDWRITING upon the vague recollection of which hangs a man's innocence or guilt.
Wouldn't You Like to Know-
- Why everyone warned Webster Carr so strongly against digging up the past?
- Who whispered the word that led to wholesale misery and death?
- What happens when a pair of lovers become caught between the old ways and the new?
- How Renata's unborn child helps to decide Julie's fate?
- What happens when three persons, all supposedly dead, meet unexpectedly on a small island?
- Why all the villagers hated kindly Serafina as they would the devil?
- Why Apollo ran away from home, and his sister lost her mind?
YOU will learn the answers in this engrossing thriller as you follow the absorbing adventures of an honest young American whose attempt to escape from guilt forces him to return to the scene of one nightmare hour on an island in Italy.
(© Dell Publishing)