Before the fact
FictionGangsters' spousesMurderersFiction, mystery & detective, generalPsychological fiction
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"Some women give birth to murderers, some go to bed with them. Lina Aysgarth had lived with her husband for nearly eight years before she realized that she was married to a murderer." Johnny was delightful—and Lina loved him desperately. But his devastating charm was combined with a complete lack of both morals and income. Slowly Lina discovered what such a combination led to. The first indications seemed trivial, especially since, in his childish way, Johnny loved her. Not for along time did she realize that he had killed, and was planning to kill again. Made into the famous Cary Grant-Joan Fontaine motion picture Suspicion, this story has seldom been surpassed for sheer, blood-curdling suspense. As one reviewer said, "it induces such a There-butfor-the-Grace-of-God sensation that one remains shivering for hours."
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FictionGangsters' spousesMurderersFiction, mystery & detective, generalPsychological fictionEnglish Detective and mystery stories
Setting
Great Britain
About the author
Anthony Berkeley
5 July 1893 – 9 March 1971
Anthony Berkeley Cox was an English crime writer who wrote as Anthony Berkeley, Frances Iles, and A. Monmouth Platts.
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