THE BAD SEED

by William March ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

William March' virulent talent is thoroughly at ease in a quietly horrifying little story in which Christine Penmark, an average, pleasant woman, alone while her husband is on a protracted business trip, discovers that their eight-year old daughter is a budding mass murderesses, with already two successes to her credit and no qualms about either one. Mrs. Penmark's disbelief is finally overcome, along with the reader's, and she turns to case histories- and family records- to discover that she was adopted and that her real mother was a notorious and successful killer, and that her daughter's homicidal impulse is inherited. When she is unable to stop still another murder-committed before her very eyes, Mrs. Penmark decides to handle the situation herself, and as she fails- the book ends on a note of ironic horror... A caustic entertainment, in which March, along with his little fiend, consummates more than one kind of wicked retaliation.

Pub Date: N/A

ISBN: 0822200880

Page Count: -

Publisher: Rinehart

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1954

Categories: FICTION