The Devil's Caress by June Wright
The fourth in Dark Passage's reissue series of crime mysteries by June Wright, The Devil's Caress, originally published in 1952, is an tense psychological thriller set on the wild southern coast of the Mornington Peninsula, outside Melbourne. Overworked young medico Marsh Mowbray has been invited to the country home of her revered mentor, Dr. Kate Waring, but it's far from the restful weekend she was hoping for. As storms rage outside, the house on the cliff's edge seethes with hatred and tension, and two suspicious deaths soon follow. "Doubt is the devil's caress", one of the characters tells Marsh, as her resolute efforts to get to the bottom of the deaths force her to question everyone's motives, even those of Dr. Kate. This is a classic country house mystery with shades of Agatha Christie, but with the jagged emotional edge of Daphne du Maurier.
Wright, June: - June Wright (1919-2012) published six crime mysteries in her native Australia between 1948 and 1966: Murder in the Telephone Exchange (1948), So Bad a Death (1949), The Devil's Caress (1952), Reservation for Murder(1958), Faculty of Murder (1961), and Make-Up for Murder (1966). A seventh, Duck Season Death, was posthumously published in 2015.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781891241437 |
| ISBN 10 | 1891241435 |
| Title | The Devil's Caress |
| Author | June Wright |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Puncture Publications |
| Year published | 2019-06-20 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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