Waltz Into DarknessPenguin Books, 1995 - 310 من الصفحات In this thrilling tale of greed and deception, Cornell Woolrich tells of middle-aged Louis Durand, whose fiancee has died fifteen years ago on the eve of their wedding. Now Louis decides to take one more chance at love by marrying Julia Russell, a woman he knows only by correspondence. When she arrives on the day of their wedding, she is younger and more beautiful than he expected--and far more deadly. Louis soon comes to realize that Julia is not who she claims to be--and they both embark on a waltz into darkness. |
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... gone . She returned before the lights had had time to be lowered again , and she was like a different person . The macabre tinge was gone from her countenance ; her cheeks now burned with an apricot glow that fought through and mastered ...
... gone . She returned before the lights had had time to be lowered again , and she was like a different person . The macabre tinge was gone from her countenance ; her cheeks now burned with an apricot glow that fought through and mastered ...
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... gone in , since the bed had not been made up , but she had no comment to offer . They descended again , in the same order in which they had gone up . Her undulating hand left the railing at the bottom , and she turned to Dollard ...
... gone in , since the bed had not been made up , but she had no comment to offer . They descended again , in the same order in which they had gone up . Her undulating hand left the railing at the bottom , and she turned to Dollard ...
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... gone downward to his own destruction , she would have clung to him to the end , gone down with him to her own , rather than release him . But a strength came into her arms that had never been in them before , and slowly her squeezing ...
... gone downward to his own destruction , she would have clung to him to the end , gone down with him to her own , rather than release him . But a strength came into her arms that had never been in them before , and slowly her squeezing ...
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