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Spindrift
Spindrift
Author: Phyllis A. Whitney
ISBN: 143572
Publication Date: 1975
Pages: 249
Rating:
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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3.3 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: Doubleday
Book Type: Hardcover
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Christy Moreland had never believed her father committed suicide at Spindrift. She was certain he had been murdered. She was equally certain her wealthy and powerful mother-in-law Theo was behind it. Until now she had no way of proving it. Now she wsa back at the huge old mansion where she could discover the truth. There were dark forces at Spindrift. Death stalked the corridors in the night and madness seemed only a breath away...
Mamacita avatar reviewed Spindrift on + 11 more book reviews
This surprise ending was even more of a surprise than Whitney's USUAL surprise endings in her books!
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Wonderful fast moving novel by Phyllis Whitney from 1975.
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From: http://www.phyllisawhitney.com

Inside the walls of a palatial Newport estate, a violent struggle was beginning. Christy Moreland had come back to Spindrift determined to uncover the truth behind the mansion's most tightly held secret: the reason for her father's death.

It was a truth that, at times, Christy felt she was barely strong enough to face, for it meant openly confronting Spindrift's domineering mistress-her mother-in-law, Theodora Moreland.

Yet it was a battle that Christy knew she could not escape, especially if she was to free her young son from the obsessive and destructive hold the Morelands had come to exert over him.

As Christy searches out the mysteries that haunt Spindrift-and the people in it-she slowly unveils a tightly woven web of deceit that only murder can continue to conceal....