RIVERGATE HOUSE

by Elissa Grandower ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 14, 1980

Romance-suspense in 1920s Manhattan--as Quillan Brookes, secretary to her detective brother Roger, helps Roger out on a case by infiltrating the New York mansion of the banking Willisons, who've been upset by a series of petty thefts. Masquerading as young Martin Willison's live-in secretary (supposedly working with him on a family history), Quillan soon sizes up the household: older brother Gary, lording it over the bank and the house; partygoing sister Amy; vapid widowed mother Millicent; secretary-nursemaid Kaufman; ne'er-do-well Uncle Walter; a couple of feuding aunts; and a staff of servants headed by butler Williams (who has his own problems). And also, of course, within a week, Quillan's plebeian charms bring her marriage proposals from both brothers. Finally, Quillan must hunt down a murderer as well as a thief--and all in all it's business as usual, bland and clichÉ-ridden but passably plotted, as Grandower (The Secret Room of Moorgate House, etc.) dispenses another plucky-heroine-in-period-distress number.

Pub Date: Nov. 14, 1980

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1980

Categories: FICTION