Hotel Room (US Edition)Cornell Woolrich's first novel out of the mystery field is a series of tricky to sketchy situational incidents which share in common Room 923 in the St. Anselm Hotel. New in 1896, when it is first opened, a bridal couple are among its first occupants the groom to disappear into the night, a murder victim; in 1917, a soldier who has just enlisted engages the room, marries the girl he meets there, and arranges a postwar rendezvous with her only to meet

he is hounding Dylan in the hope of bringing him into disrepute

he likes to indulge in a spot of parachute jumping with Major Rodriguez

celebratory and elegiac

Like the butterflies Thomas is so obsessed by

someone he may even know

screen and airwaves since her teens

Conquer your fear

A long time ago I used to live in Lisbon

it's a powerful and utterly compelling first-person account of the trauma experienced by a child

Muriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie features a schoolmistress you'll never forget

is a wych-hunter

so has sharpened his mind to a deadly edge