The Tightrope Walker - Hardcover

Gilman, Dorothy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816130264 ISBN 13: 9780816130269

Publisher: G K Hall & Co, 1980

Synopsis

After buying a junk shop, shy and lonely Amelia Jones discovers a note, hidden in a hurdy-gurdy, signed by a woman named Hannah who claims that she is about to be murdered

About this title

About the Author:

Dorothy Gilman (1923-2012) was the author of 14 Mrs. Pollifax novels, including The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, the series debut; Mrs. Pollifax Pursued; Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer; Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist; and Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled. She was also the author of many other novels, among them Thale's Folly.

From the Inside Flap:

"A superb book."
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
When quiet, shy Amelia Jones reads a desperate message that has fallen out of a barrel organ in the antique shop she just bought, she can't forget the words, "They're going to kill me soon..." Armed only with the woman's first name and the note written years before, Amelia begins a journey into the past, a search that takes her from the protective cocoon she's wrapped herself in to a precarious world where nothing is the way it seems, where fear is second nature, and dark secrets just might uncover murder--her own....

About this edition

• Publisher: G K Hall & Co
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0816130264
• ISBN 13: 9780816130269
• Binding: Hardcover