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The Unsuspected
Series: An American Mystery Classic
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The Unsuspected
To catch a murderous theater impresario, a young woman takes a deadly new role
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To catch a murderous theatre impresario, a young woman takes a deadly new role
The note discovered beside Rosaleen Wright's hanged body is full of reasons justifying her suicide—but it lacks her trademark vitality and wit, and, most importantly, her signature. So the note alone is far from enough to convince her best friend Jane that Rosaleen was her own murderer, even if the police quickly accept the possibility as fact.
Instead, Jane suspects Rosaleen’s boss, New York theatre impresario Luther Grandison. To the world at large, he's powerful and charismatic, but Rosaleen’s letters to Jane described a duplicitous, greedy man who would no doubt kill to protect his secrets. If Rosaleen stumbled upon one such secret, it could have led to an untimely demise—and Jane risks a similar end when she takes a job with Grandison’s company, tangling with one of Broadway’s deadliest actors in a desperate play for the truth.
A playwright before she turned to crime fiction, Charlotte Armstrong drew from her experience in the theatre for her fourth novel, The Unsuspected. The book inspired the 1947 film of the same name.
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The Unsuspected by Charlotte Armstrong is praised for its streamlined and evocative writing, drawing comparisons to classic Hitchcockian thrillers. Critics highlight its intricate plotting and psychological depth, with suspense that remains potent and expertly handled, making it as vivid and fresh today as it was when first published.
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ISBN: 9781613161234
Publisher: Penzler Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 March 2019
Country: United States
Imprint: American Mystery Classics
Contributors:
- Introduction by Otto Penzler
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 261g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Charlotte Armstrong (1905-1969) was an American poet, dramatist, and author of mystery short stories and novels. She was born and raised in the mining region of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. After two years at the University of Wisconsin, she moved to New York and received a B.A. degree from Barnard in 1925. She had two plays produced on Broadway but neither was successful, so she turned to writing mystery fiction, beginning with Lay On, MacDuff (1942), the first of three detective novels featuring Professor MacDougal Duff. It was with The Unsuspected that she achieved outstanding success and moved to Hollywood while it was being filmed. The 1947 Warner Brothers feature starred Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter, and Hurd Hatfield; it was directed by Michael Curtiz.
Otto Penzler, the creator of American Mystery Classics, is also the founder of the Mysterious Press (1975), a literary crime imprint now associated with Grove/Atlantic; Mysterious Press.com (2011), an electronic-book publishing company; and New York City’s Mysterious Bookshop (1979). He has won a Raven, the Ellery Queen Award, two Edgars (for the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, 1977, and The Lineup, 2010), and lifetime achievement awards from Noircon and The Strand Magazine. He has edited more than 70 anthologies and written extensively about mystery fiction.
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