ISBN: 0-88739-324-1
194 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 6/2001
Paperback Original
Price: $13.95
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Hanged Man, The
Hilda Dunn
The year is 1947, and Kate Clark, an aspiring young actress with an active imagination, sets sail from New York on a transatlantic adventure. But when casual acquaintances start to turn up murdered, she finds herself entangled in a very real mystery, one set in motion by events of the recent war. As dangers mount and the secrets of the past come to light, Kate searches for the hero to whom she can deliver the gypsy's message: "I do not find the Hanged Man."
Review: "This fun period piece riffs on 1940s mystery and comedy flicks."
-Publisher's Weekly
"Within clever reference to Graham Greene, T.S. Eliot, Dashiell Hammett, and even Charles Dickens, Hilda Dunn gives the reader a tale that propels her ingenuous protagonist into a maze-like series of events that baffle and intrigue. Best of all is Dunn's evocation of time and place: England struggling to recover its equanimity immediately after WWII."
-A.A. DeVitis, Professor Emeritus, Purdue University
"Trenchant, witty, learned, with wide and generous frames of reference, Dunn's novel is a masterpiece of the thriller genre: every page pulses with energy and interest."
-Joanna Picciotto, Assistant Professor, Princeton University
"An excellent entertainment with an edge that distinguishes it from its companions in this genre...brisk pacing and complexities of plot refreshing in a mystery..."
-Jane A. Nelson, Professor Emerita
Northeastern University
Bio: HILDA DUNN was born in 1925. She graduated from Syracuse University and studied in Edinburgh and Venice immediately after World War II. She died in 1998, while on vacation in England.
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