Where Are the Children?

Where Are the Children?

Mary Higgins Clark

Language: English

Pages: 304

ISBN: 1416507779

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the windswept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children, and the terrible pain has begun to heal -- until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and finds only one red mitten. She knows that the nightmare is beginning again....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

started to feel safe. There was something else that he had to do, but the chance had never come. She kept such a close watch on the children. But he couldn’t afford to wait anymore. Tomorrow . . . He moved restlessly around the room. The bedroom of the top-floor apartment was large. The whole house was large. It was a bastardized evolution of an old captain’s house. Begun in the seventeenth century on a rocky crest that commanded a view of the whole bay, it was a pretentious monument to man’s

resort trade. Mentally reviewing these points, Dorothy said, “I’d never recommend investing in a restaurant over on the other side of the Cape anymore; it’s just one mass of motels and pizza parlors now—absolutely frightful zoning—but this side of the Cape is still lovely. The Lookout has unlimited possibilities as a restaurant and inn. During the thirties it was renovated extensively and turned into a country club. People didn’t have money to join expensive country clubs at that time, and so it

owed Dorothy an apology. She didn’t look well. The strain was telling on her. She still was wearing her heavy coat, and her hands were jammed in her pockets. He decided that he wanted to talk to her at the first opportunity. She needed calming down. She certainly thought the world of those children. The lights in the room flickered, then went off. “That figures.” Jed Coffin propped the microphone on the table and searched for matches. Quickly Ray lighted the antique gas lamps on either side of

sick.” The wind caught the door, pulled it open till it thudded against the side of the house. Missy was crying now—a loud, frightened wail: “Mommmmmmmy!” Carl thrust his body onto the balcony. Nancy scrambled after him, bracing against the door-frame. It was so narrow. There was barely space for one person between the railing and the chimney. Frantically she clawed at his clothes—trying to get a grip on him, to pull him back from the low railing. If he fell or dropped Missy . . . “Carl, stop.

Parrish, was pulled out of the water still alive. Before he died, he was able to make a statement, confessing his sole guilt in the murder of his children, Lisa and Peter, seven years ago. He also admitted that he was responsible for the death of Nancy Eldredge’s mother. Realizing that she would have prevented his marriage to Nancy, he jammed the steering mechanism of her car while she was in the restaurant with Nancy. Mr. John Kragopoulos, whom Professor Harmon assaulted today, is on the serious

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