The Tightrope Walker
- ISBN-10
- 0449211770
- ISBN-13
- 9780449211779
- Series
- The Tightrope Walker
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1986-10
- Publisher
- Fawcett Books
- Author
- Dorothy Gilman
Description
Amelia, the new owner of a musty antique store filled with merry-go-round horses and hurdy-gurdies, finds a scrawled, mysterious note inside a barrel organ. Armed only with the strange woman's first name and a note written years before, Amelia begins a journey into the past where fear is second nature, and where dark secrets just might uncover murder -- even her own! -- from publisher description.
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Other editions
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- 1992
- 275 pages
- Paperback
- University of Toronto Press
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