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Chargement... La Nuit la plus longuepar Patricia Carlon
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After strangling a girl, Mart stalks a woman and her niece, realizing they are the only ones who can connect him to the crime. Tracking them to a small Australian town, Mart corners the aunt and traps her inside a steel vault where no one can hear her screams, and where air is running out. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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As the man stumbled away, the rain came, and Rachel scooped up her niece and their picnic things, and they rushed back to their car. As Martin goes on his way, riding his scooter home in the heavy downpour, he realises that when Rose's body is discovered, the woman he has just left will be able to describe him. His mind clutches at straws in panicky excitement, imagining what will happen once Rose is reported missing. That's when he realises he will have to find the woman and the little girl and at least deal with the woman.
There is no doubt about the novel's Australian setting, whether you consider the language used (blokes and sheilas), or the descriptions of the landscape. It is also rather obviously set in an era that has passed, where women had stiffly lacquered hair, wore twin sets, men rode scooters, and the Australian currency was pounds, shillings and pence. The last clearly puts it pre-1966, but I didn't feel that the plot or the writing style had dated.
The tension in THE UNQUIET NIGHT builds and builds. There is a series of episodes when the reader with the superior knowledge that comes from having been omnipresent could almost scream as the characters don't realise the consequences of what they are doing, or rather, the consequences of what they are not doing. I found it a very enjoyable read and rated it at 4.7.
Patricia Carlon (1927-2002) was an Australian author, who wrote everything from stories and serials to short and long novels. Her work was published in Australia, England and the US under various names in newspapers and magazines, including Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Unfortunately for most of her life, her success as an author was not recognised in Australia, but 14 of her mystery novels were published in the UK between 1961 and 1970.
Her crime fiction novels
* Circle of Fear (1961)
* Danger in the Dark (1962)
* Who Are You, Linda Condrick? (1962)
* The Price of an Orphan (1964)
* The Unquiet Night (1965)
* Crime of Silence (1965)
* Betray Me If You Dare (1966)
* The Running Woman (1966)
* See Nothing, Say Nothing (1967)
* Hush, It's a Game (1967)
* Forty Pieces of Alloy (1968)
* The Whispering Wall (1969)
* The Souvenir (1970)
* Death by Demonstration (1970)
Both THE UNQUIET NIGHT and CRIME OF SILENCE are available from Text Publishing, and on their site will find more details about her. You will also find reviews of her all novels at Australian Crime Fiction.
THE SOUVENIR and THE WHISPERING WALL are both available from the Wakefield Press,
Originally published 1965 ( )