![]() Many another gothic novel has started in very much the same way. Rather than a desolate castle on a rocky coastline, the focus is instead a grove of cypress trees surrounding a bathing pool behind a huge manor house.Ī young girl comes to be the tutor of a young motherless boy, his aloof father and two servants the only other occupants of a house that’s full of secrets. ![]() From the present day when the previous book took place, we shift in time to some unidentified period in the past. We move from Cornwall (see my earlier review of The Shadow of Polperro, by Frances Cowen) to Connecticut. ![]() As the author of a long armful of detective novels, his primary private eye character - and probably his favorite - was the inimitable Ed Noon, the books in which he appeared I should really unpack and read again soon.Īvallone as Noone stays totally within the restrictions of the gothic romance novel, however, as practiced in the 60s and 70s, and except for sheer readability, perhaps, there’s nothing in this tale’s style of writing to suggest that it was Avallone who was really at the wheel. Reprinted at least once.Įdwina Noone was, as you might have guessed, if you didn’t already know, one of the pseudonyms of Michael Avallone, one of more prolific writers of the 60s and 70s. ![]() ![]() Ace K-213, paperback original 1st printing, 1965. ![]()
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