With what Graham Greene once called her 'devilish cunning,' Vera Caspary reveals, with sure psychological insight, the strange desires that hide in the hearts of quiet individuals. Caspary offers one of her most suspenseful thrillers in this tale of love, jealousy, guilt and hate. When Fletcher marries Elaine, his second wife who is 19 years his junior, he can't imagine a more passionate union. Then an illness destroys his confidence and he is determined to prevent her living a happy life after his death.
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With what Graham Greene once called her 'devilish cunning,' Vera Caspary reveals, with sure psychological insight, the strange desires that hide in the hearts of quiet individuals. Caspary offers one of her most suspenseful thrillers in this tale of love, jealousy, guilt and hate. When Fletcher marries Elaine, his second wife who is 19 years his junior, he can't imagine a more passionate union. Then an illness destroys his confidence and he is determined to prevent her living a happy life after his death.