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The menace withinUrsula Curtiss

The menace within

1979192 pages
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8 editions · 2 languages
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When her aunt had been taken to hospital after a bad stroke, Amanda was left in charge of her house. Amanda knew about her aunt's dog but she didn't know about the secret underground shelter built beneath the house. This hiding place had been put to secret and illicit use by a workman who had known of its existence when it was first built, before Amanda's aunt bought the house. A murderer had been hidden in the secret room: a man who had recently killed a young woman : a man far from sane, who had a sane, loyal and dangerous ally in his half-brother. From these men's points of view it becomes…

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Editions

8 editions · 2 languages
  • Hardcover · English · 2003
    BBC Audiobooks · 192 pages · 9780754086468
  • Paperback · English · 1979
    Ballantine Books · 9780345284426
  • Other · English · 1983
    Chivers Press · 250 pages · 9780893404819
  • Other · English · 1983
    Chivers Press · 250 pages · 9780851195476
  • Other · English · 1979
    Dodd, Mead · 183 pages · 9780396076209
  • Other · English · 1979
    Macmillan · 183 pages · 9780333263372
Large type booksFiction in EnglishMysterysuspensegothicFiction, general