JOURNEY INTO STONE

by Audrey Erskine Lindop ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 20, 1972

Audrey Erskine Lindop writes well above and beyond the mystery-suspense elements which are present in her story, quietly, authoritatively and with the proficiency which comes with long practice. On the one hand you will be commiserating with Grennon -- a young policeman, married to the possessive and very petulant Betty who resents his lot and doesn't adjust to hers, even after a child is born. On the other hand you wonder about the affiliated but sporadic episodes which take place up and around an estate called the Walls -- a theft of some silver and brass; the homicide (was he run over?) of a grocer; the killings of a dog and a sheep and a pig -- and finally the disappearance of a little girl. And what of the ""Brothers Glum"" up at the Walls, one of whom keeps Of Mice and Men by his bed and fears his ""accidents of strength""? Mrs. Lindop keeps her story so well based in rural small-town everydayness that you hardly notice how expertly it proceeds from the unsettling to the unnerving in no time. In no time at all.

Pub Date: Oct. 20, 1972

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Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1972

Categories: FICTION