The So Blue Marble
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Publisher Description
Superb Art Deco suspense set in the glamorous world of high society New York from 'An author with a flair for terror' The New Yorker
'If you wake up in the night screaming with terror, don't say we didn't warn you' New York Times
Once the dashing, top-hatted twins, Danny and David, who share nice college boy laughs, have the marble, they will do to Griselda what they have done to the others.
Her estranged husband, Con, is a thousand miles away, and can't save her.
A bloody trail has wound around the so blue marble: years of theft, torture, violence; whispers of secret riches, gold, diamonds, rubies as big as the moon. Soon it would be Griselda's turn.
But Griselda believes that nothing ever happens to nice people, and that there is no reason to feel nervous at night, not even in the heart of New York, and knowing what she does about the marble . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
First published in 1940, this delightful entry in Otto Penzler's new American Mystery Classics series was the debut of MWA Grand Master Hughes (1904 1993), best known today for In a Lonely Place, which became a film starring Humphrey Bogart. After a brief stint as an actress in Hollywood, Griselda Satterlee has returned to Manhattan to pursue a career as a fashion designer. One night, while returning to her ex-husband's East Side apartment, where she is staying, she is accosted by two frightening young men who demand that she give them the "blue marble." What follows is nonstop action, with menace and daring exploits bursting through the smooth veneer of upper-class life. Students of cultural history will enjoy stepping back into a New York where gentlemen wear top hats when going out on the town, and ladies, when hastily packing to escape from psychopaths, remember to include in their suitcases "hats with tissue paper crumpled in their hollows." That Hughes was a poet is clear from the jangling rhythm of her prose. Readers new to this forgotten classic are in for a treat.
