Séance on a Wet Afternoon - Couverture souple

McShane, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1453236759 ISBN 13 : 9781453236758

Editeur : Open Road Media, 2013

Synopsis

Hoping for notoriety, a struggling psychic kidnaps a child

Most so-called psychics disgust Myra Savage. She has no patience for their chintz and cheap tricks, for her power is real. Myra can see into other people's minds, can even sometimes sense the future, but she has never yet communicated with the other side. For that she needs the cooperation of great psychics, but she lacks the stature to attract their attention. To satisfy this burning need for fame, she and her husband concoct The Plan. Bill snatches a six-year-old girl from her schoolyard and pastes together a letter demanding ransom. After a few days of citywide panic, Myra will lead the police to the girl and the money, and all of London will know her name. When a criminal can see the future, what could possibly go wrong?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mark McShane (b. 1930) was an Australian author of satire, suspense novels, and crime fiction. Born in Sydney to a family with Gypsy roots, he traveled the world for the first three decades of his life. In 1960, he settled on the island of Mallorca, in the Mediterranean, and decided to write fiction. His first novel, The Straight and the Crooked, appeared that year, but it was his third effort, Séance on a Wet Afternoon, for which he is best known. The story of a strange pair of kidnappers, it was made into a well regarded film in 1964, and has also been adapted as an opera. His most well known characters are the eccentric Detective Sergeant Norman Pink, and Appleton Porter, an unlikely spy whose often comic adventures McShane chronicled under the pseudonym Marc Lovell.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Open Road Media
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1453236759
• ISBN 13: 9781453236758
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 182
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