The first Mrs. Winston
"On their wedding day Jack Winston brought his bride Connie home to Forest Edge where a party of neighbors had gathered to welcome her. As a toast was offered, 'A long life and happiness for Mrs. Winston,' the door opened and a woman, tall and beautiful, stood smiling. 'Which Mrs. Winston?' Connie was stunned. She had believed Jack's first wife to be dead, not divorced. But Rhoda was very arrogantly alive. Her barbed remarks to each of the seven guests soon broke up the impromptu gathering. Connie wondered why Rhoda was so involved in the tangled lives of the people of Forest Edge. And why did Jack fear her? During a skating party the next evening the blast of a shotgun was heard. Shortly afterward, Jack found a dead body on a snow-covered path in the woods. The police refused to accept the theory that a trigger-happy hunter was responsible for the fatal shot. Someone in Forest Edge was a murderer. The tension mounts as Connie pieces together a terrifying mosaic of private hatreds and fears. Here is an absorbing story of evil and of love"--Dust jacket
Print Book, English, [1972]
Dodd, Mead, New York, [1972]