The Watcher

A Library of America eBook Classic

Ebook
On sale Dec 08, 2015 | 192 Pages | 9781598534870

“The fact is that during the last year I have killed three young people”: A pleasant waterfront community in California is subjected to a series of seemingly random killings, the victims all children. Dolores Hitchens’ intricately plotted novel explores a town’s collective terror, as the inhabitants slowly come to realize that one of their neighbors is engaged in a terrible and protracted campaign of murder for motives impossible to guess. The Watcher expertly explores the resulting mood of anguish and mutual suspicion, and the vulnerability of the young people who are the inexplicable targets of violent evil.
Dolores Hitchens (1907–1973) was a prolific mystery and suspense writer, the author of Sleep With Strangers (1955), Fools' Gold (1958), and The Watcher (1959), among many other works, under her own name, and twenty additional suspense novels as D. B. Olsen. She was one of eight writers whose work was collected in Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940 and 50s, published in the Library of America series in 2015.

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“The fact is that during the last year I have killed three young people”: A pleasant waterfront community in California is subjected to a series of seemingly random killings, the victims all children. Dolores Hitchens’ intricately plotted novel explores a town’s collective terror, as the inhabitants slowly come to realize that one of their neighbors is engaged in a terrible and protracted campaign of murder for motives impossible to guess. The Watcher expertly explores the resulting mood of anguish and mutual suspicion, and the vulnerability of the young people who are the inexplicable targets of violent evil.

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Dolores Hitchens (1907–1973) was a prolific mystery and suspense writer, the author of Sleep With Strangers (1955), Fools' Gold (1958), and The Watcher (1959), among many other works, under her own name, and twenty additional suspense novels as D. B. Olsen. She was one of eight writers whose work was collected in Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940 and 50s, published in the Library of America series in 2015.

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