Rose's last summer
"To most of the people in La Mesa, Rose French's only claim to fame was the brilliant explosiveness of her periodic binges. Frank Clyde and a few others knew that she had been a great star in the days of silent pictures, had married and left five husbands, and that Rose at sixty still had the vitality of a force of nature. Frank was a young social worker who sometimes let his feelings color his work, and Rose was his favorite case history. When that history came to a sudden end in a deserted garden, Frank was deeply affected. The coroner's jury pronounced Rose dead of natural causes, but Frank had his doubts ..." -- From dust jacket
Print Book, English, ©1952
Random House, New York, ©1952