Nighttime Ponderings,: A Collection of Short Stories

ISBN-13: 9781453792254 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 318 str.

Jackie Knott

Opis

* An ambitious young politician chooses a wife who will define him and be the power behind his success. * A desperately ill woman must do away with her husband before he eliminates her. * A delivery boy brings groceries to an obsessed woman with a compulsive and disturbing hobby. * A widow requests a retired officer probe into her late husband's finances with unexpected results. * A timid accountant at the center of a terrorist attempt unwillingly answers the challenge. * A socialite seeks solitude debating whether to divorce or not - and her husband helps her choose. * He squandered every dollar his hard working wife ever made, including her life savings. * A man finds out playing with a woman once too often can be costly. * What does it take for a man to prove himself? * A nursing home resident confesses she murdered herhusband and got away with it. * He solves his mother's unwelcome attempts to introduce him to prospective young ladies. * Did this photojournalist really disappear?