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Phyllis A. Whitney

    9 septembre 1903 – 8 février 2008

    Phyllis A. Whitney était une romancière de mystère américaine qui écrivait aussi bien pour les jeunes lecteurs que pour les adultes. Ses œuvres mettaient souvent en scène des lieux exotiques et elle était considérée comme la 'Reine des Gothiques Américains'. L'écriture de Whitney excellait dans la création de suspense et d'atmosphère, captivant un large public grâce à sa narration distinctive.

    The Singing Stones
    The Red Carnelian
    Spindrift
    Un amour d'hiver
    Le taureau de pierre
    La peur du passé
    • Le taureau de pierre

      • 348pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      RO90062613. LE TAUREAU DE PIERRE - THE STONE BULL. 1985. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 348 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine

      Le taureau de pierre
    • Grand Master Phyllis Whitney dishes out another classic novel of suspense set in a large Chicago department store. Linell Wynn's ex-boyfriend turns up in a display window--dead. Everyone is a suspect, but Linell discovers some of her co-workers are not who they say they are! How does it feel to be in a big department store after customers have hurried home and the lights have been darkened so that eeriness reigns over the vast reaches of the floors? To Linell Wynn, who writes sign copy for Cunninghams', such a scene has always seemed perfectly natural until the day that murder walks the floors at dusk. The matter-of-factness of the police as they question people whom she knows, works with every day, does nothing to dispel the feeling that they are only temporarily holding back the powers of darkness. Evil has struck once--and evil is hovering, waiting to strike again. Steeling herself, giving herself courage against it, she is still unprepared when she stumbles upon death for the second time. Things which have familiar everyday significance suddenly assume a strange unnaturalness and terror surrounds her. Before that terror can be vanquished, Linell, herself, stands face to face with death.

      The Red Carnelian
      3,5
    • The Singing Stones

      • 352pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      Despite her misgivings, child psychologist Lynn McLeod returns to Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains to help ten-year-old Jilly, her ex-husband Stephen's child. But what she finds at the secluded household are more questions. And the danger that threatens both Stephen and Jilly soon closes tightly around Lynn. And all the while, the soft, hypnotic sound in the wind--the eerie yet beautiful music of the Singing Stones--lures Lynn into a realm of mystery, murder, and dormant passion. And, perhaps, to the key to her own destiny...

      The Singing Stones
      3,9
    • Jenny Vaughn had lived in the shadow of Ariel, a beautiful dancer whose art had become legend. But when Ariel vanished, Jenny was no longer needed and retreated to Laurel Mountain. Yet the happiness she sought was overshadowed by ominous voices whispering of guilt and danger....

      The Stone Bull
      3,5
    • Lacey Elliott discovers that the father who has been missing for most of her life was murdered, and the murderer is nearby.

      Daughter of the Stars
      3,6