Emma Masterson, whose socialite mother Laura had been killed sixteen years earlier in a notorious murder/suicide, turns to amateur sleuth Joe Wilder to help make sure history does not repeat itself. Reprint. PW.
A hurt and frightened woman, pursued by mysterious, menacing strangers, is taken in by a couple in an isolated house
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Menace is in the air. Originally published in 1933, Hammett's Woman in the Dark shows the author at the peak of his narrative powers. With an introduction by Robert B. Parker, the author of the celebrated Spenser novels.
She is hurt and frightened. The man and woman who live there take her in. But their decency is utterly unequipped to deal with the Woman in the Dark, or with the designs of the men who want her.