ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1964
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Phyllis A. Whitney - Black Amber
Fawcett Crest, 1964
222 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro-, vlaga je ostavila trag.

In An Ancient Land of Mosques and Minarets, The Secret Behind Her Sister`s Death is Hidden

When Anabel Radburn placed a desperate overseas phone call to her sister Tracy saying she was in great danger, Tracy chalked it up to Anabel`s dramatic flair. Until the next day when Anabel`s body is pulled from the Bosporus in Istanbul. Racked with guilt for not responding immediately, Tracy travels to Turkey where she keeps her identity secret while trying to piece together the broken threads of Anabel`s life.
Despite what Anabel`s husband says, Tracy is convinced that her sister did not commit suicide. As she searches for clues in Anabel`s waterfront villa, Tracy finds mystery and danger around every corner. Alone in a far-off country, Tracy must act quickly if she wants to live long enough to avenge Anabel`s death.

A Manhattan editor investigates her sister’s suspicious death in Istanbul in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling “queen of the American gothics” (TheNew York Times).

Tracy Hubbard, an up-and-comer at a prestigious New York City publisher, has arrived at a sprawling villa on the Bosporus strait in Istanbul for an enviable arrangement. She’s come to assist celebrated artist Miles Radburn with his new book on the history of Turkish art. Everything Tracy has heard about the man turns out to be true: He’s brooding, handsome, brilliant, short-tempered, and loath to discuss the tragic secrets of his past. But the young editor is keeping a secret of her own . . .

Tracy’s position at the villa is a charade. It was here, six months ago, that her sister, Anabel, spent the last days of her life. Somewhere, among the conspiratorial staff, nocturnal visits from furtive strangers, and cold dark corridors, is hidden the mystery of Anabel’s death. And as each new clue leads Tracy closer to Miles, a man she has come to both love and fear, she realizes she could be heading toward the same inevitable and chilling fate.

Hailed by Time magazine as “one of the best” in the gothic romance field that included Mary Stewart and Victoria Holt, Phyllis A. Whitney was the recipient of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement.


From the jacket

To Tracy Hubbard, at home in New York, a masquerade had seemed the only possible way to track down the answer to a tragedy for which she felt partly responsible. But now that she was in Istanbul, an impostor in the exotic household of Sylvana Erim, Tracy was baffled and alarmed by a series of mystifying events and drawn, in spite of herself, into a whirlpool of conspiracy and intrigue.

In the abandoned ruins of a palace she overhears a heated argument in Turkish-the only word she can understand is her own name. She watches a small, unlighted boat pay a nocturnal visit to the dock of the villa`s garden. Unknown hands mark a disturbing passage in a book with a string of black amber beads.

She has come here as an assistant to Miles Radburn, the well-known artist. Radburn appears to hold the answers to several life or death questions. Is he suffering grief over the death of his young wife, or is he responsible for some loathsome secret that lies hidden in the past? Tracy finds it requires all her own stubborn defiance to resist this violent man who can at times be so strangely tender. There is no one she can trust in the hostile and enigmatic household. Suddenly Tracy realizes that she knows too much and that her very life is in danger.


Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Gothic, Romance, Suspense