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e-Book The Unsuspected download

e-Book The Unsuspected download

by Charlotte Armstrong

ISBN: 0884115674
ISBN13: 978-0884115670
Language: English
Publisher: Aeonian Pr (June 1, 1981)
Pages: 173
Category: Mystery
Subategory: Thriller

ePub size: 1939 kb
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Rating: 4.6
Votes: 395
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Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (May 2, 1905, in Vulcan, Michigan – July 7, 1969, in Glendale, California) was an American author. Under the names Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine she wrote 29 novels, as well as short stories, plays, and screenplays

Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (May 2, 1905, in Vulcan, Michigan – July 7, 1969, in Glendale, California) was an American author. Under the names Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine she wrote 29 novels, as well as short stories, plays, and screenplays. Additionally, she worked for the New Yorker magazine, publishing only three poems for them.

You're not depressed? Not brooding? Not low? You feel well? You're young and looking forward? You've got something to live for?". Francis barked questions at her harshly, angrily. Francis barked questions at her harshly, angrily ie?". Of course I don't want to die! I don't know what you're talking about!". She was so angry she stood up without knowing she had done so. With her head thrown back, her chin up, eyes bright, her breath drawn with indignation, her lovely figure taut and poised, she was most vividly alive.

The Unsuspected book. Luther Grandison, Rosaleen’s boss, is a New York theatrical impresario with a by Charlotte Armstrong 4★'s

The Unsuspected book. Luther Grandison, Rosaleen’s boss, is a New York theatrical impresario with a by Charlotte Armstrong 4★'s. From the Book: Why did Rosaleen Wright hang herself in a soundproof room?

Francis sat still with angry white face. The Unsuspected," he murmured. Has he got the crust to mean himself?" Chapter Two.

Chapter One. On a February Monday, in the afternoon, too late for lunch too early for tea, the restaurant was nearly empty. You know, he's kind of an authority on murder. Murder?" said Francis. Francis sat still with angry white face.

The Unsuspected - Charlotte Armstrong. Everybody paired us off in the old days. But time’s gone by and we’ve been apart, and maybe she grew up and changed. What I’m trying to tell you is that if she did change and got mixed up emotionally-.

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Book by Armstrong, Charlotte. I have often felt that Armstrong is simply not a writer for me, that she was obviously very talented but was writing from such a defiantly feminine point of view that it was hard for me to suspend the requisite amount of disbelief to enter one of her stories.

Comments:
Rainbearer
Always a solid professional writer, Armstrong comes through with a suspense thriller which is quite good. Admittedly, the set-up requires some suspension of disbelief, but is that not true of most thrillers. Her bewildered heroine is quite appealing, her hero only becoming so as we move well into the story. The secondary heroine qualifies as a most satisfactory 'Girl Friday'. The villain is drawn in broad strokes in which malevolence is masked by the appearance of benevolence convincing to all but the very few who come to know better. The central question is, why have the (essentially) female wards of the GREAT MAN coming to such bad ends.

Whitebinder
I have often felt that Armstrong is simply not a writer for me, that she was obviously very talented but was writing from such a defiantly feminine point of view that it was hard for me to suspend the requisite amount of disbelief to enter one of her stories.

This is an example of that -- I tried it because a commentator I respect had put it on his list of favorite mysteries. It's not a mystery, though -- it's best understood as a thriller, in particular a Gothic. Two people go undercover in an eccentric entertainer's house to prove that the recent suicide there was in fact murder. The bad guy is never in doubt, there is no mystery to this -- just a cat and mouse game until the end.

The way this is set up is silly but amusing, and I did like some of the minor characters. I did not, however, buy this story one teeny tiny bit -- that the hero's plan could go off without anybody saying boo, yes, but more importantly, that anyone would be buffaloed by the bad guy. In order for this story to work the bad guy has to be almost a Jim Jones-style cult leader -- but the bad guy never comes across as that to me, he comes across as ridiculous, rather obvious and laughable, in fact.

I have no reason to doubt Armstong's seriousness about this, though -- SHE never seems to think the bad guy's laughable -- which makes me wonder if this isn't just a woman/man thing, if somehow this figure would resonate more for women. Despite the notion of the heroes the real protagonist of this story is a woman under the bad guy's spell who's trying to extricate herself: this is seen as Something Really Hard to Do, although if Bad Guy tried these tricks in any number of venues I'm familiar with, he'd be laughed out of the house. The story is really about the dangers of charisma; that seems to be a very feminine notion.

So, I'm of two minds about it. Like every Armstrong book I've read it's well put together and well-crafted -- I just don't buy any of it, but maybe I'm not the person to ask.

(PS. I think her best book is A DRAM OF POISON, it's as unbelievable as anything else she ever wrote but is something of a G.K. Chesterton pastiche, and as such can wear the implausibilities more lightly.)

Hirah
good book good movie

Cerekelv
AS A WRTER OF SUSPENSE I DO NOT THINK ANYONE CAN APPROACH ARMSTRONG. I LOVED HER STORIES YEARS AGO AND THEY HAVE HELD UP VERY WELL. I WILL READ THEM ALL AGAIN. VIRGINIA SMITH

Kecq
Really improbable if you think about it, but you'll be too involved to think. The central character, Grandy, is an extraordibnary, really a unique, creation and he dominated me as he did the other characters throughout the book. A mixture, if you can conceive it, of Alexander Woollcott and Fu Manchu (I apologize to the shades of each).

Quellik
The book was in good condition; just as described. I have not finished it yet read the first few pages and I'm anxious to get to it.

Muniath
Charlotte Armstrong does suspense well. This book is one of her best.

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