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While My Pretty One Sleeps
While My Pretty One Sleeps
Author: Mary Higgins Clark
Neeve Kearny may be the only person in New York worried about the disappearance of Ethel Lambston. Ethel, a bestselling author famous for her juicy exposés, is one of the best customers at Neeve's exclusive Madison Avenue boutique. But Ethel's ex-husband, her parasitical nephew, and the fashion moguls skewered in her latest article all have...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780671673680
ISBN-10: 0671673688
Publication Date: 7/1/1990
Pages: 318
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 347 ratings
Publisher: Pocket
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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libros75 avatar reviewed While My Pretty One Sleeps on + 18 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This book had me guessing who the culprit was from the beginning. I never guessed it would be...well, I'm not saying! It has some slow moments, but all in all, it was good.
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Helpful Score: 1
From the published summary:
"Set against the glittering world of New York's fashion industry, While My Pretty One Sleeps begins with the murder of Ethel Lambston, a famous gossip writer whose forthcoming book threatens to expose the secrets of some of the most powerful- and glamorous-figures in the world of fashion. At its center is Neeve Kearney, owner of an expensive Madison Avenue boutique where Ethel shopped, daughter of a former New York City Police Commissioner, a beautiful young woman still trying to overcome the horror of her mother's murder seventeen years ago, in what seemed to have been a pointless act of revenge...
Drawn into the drama of Ethel's death, Neeve soon finds herself in danger, puzzled, as is everyone, by the sheer number of people who MIGHT have had a reason for the killing: the wealthy dress manufacturers whose mob connections and sweatshop factories have been exposed; Ethel's debt-ridden ex-husband, crazed by having to pay alimony every month to a woman who has all the money she needs and more; her ne'er-do-well nephew and sole heir, who has moved into her apartment, seemingly aware that she has disappeared...
Neeve plunges into this tangled, dangerous web, not realizing that her own life is threatened, haunted by the feeling that the clue to the murder is something she KNOWS, something which only she (and the victim herself) would have noticed, unaware that the killer is closer to her than she could ever have dreamed...
Richly peopled with fascinating, varied characters from every walk of life--a brilliantly gifted designer whose success conceals an awful secret; a Mafia don, just released from prison, who has vowed vengeance on Neeve's father and his family; a suave prelate who has almost reached the peak of the Catholic hierarchy; a vicious hit man, sworn to carry out a contract on Neeve's life; a brilliant young publisher who may, at last, be the man Neeve has been waiting for-- While My Pretty One Sleeps has all the pace, the excitement, the high-charged suspense, the romance and glamorous background that have made Mary Higgins Clark one of America's most popular writers."
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tigers9494 avatar reviewed While My Pretty One Sleeps on + 49 more book reviews
Gets better & better...
reviewed While My Pretty One Sleeps on + 23 more book reviews
Lots of mystery keeps you guessing
reviewed While My Pretty One Sleeps on + 20 more book reviews
If you like Mary Higgins Clark this is another good one. I enjoy her writing and they are hard to put down.
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A book to read!
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lots of tantalizing red-herrings are dangled before the reader, but they will not be able to guess the shocking and twisted motives of the actual murderer until the final pages!
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Higgins Clark is one of the best!


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