The Quiet Woman (ePub)

The

Quiet Woman begins when two people

conspire to steal a fortune in cash. It ends in double murder. The payroll of

the Jauncey Engineering plant is missing. According to the guard, found bound

and gagged at the scene, two trusted employees, Harold

Graham and Yvonne Marshall,

are responsible for the crime, and the police proceed as if this were just

another payroll theft.









To crime reporter Quinn it sounds like the

usual story of a married man and a younger woman who plot to steal the money in

order to finance a new life together. He and his friend, insurance assessor

Piper, question the missing woman's husband and the missing man's wife and her

sister. Soon they are patching scattered clues together, and Quinn sets out to

investigate the possibility that Yvonne may have already double-crossed Harold.











Then the first corpse is discovered. All

clues point in the same direction, but when the second body is found in a

watery ditch, that theory must also be discarded. Another hypothesis is then

proposed and painstakingly investigated. It, too, turns into a blind alley. A

third cul-de-sac, equally convincing and just as false, makes the action by

turns frustrating or suspenseful, but always gripping. And Quinn, who wanted

only a human-interest angle for his column, becomes more and more intimately

involved in the case.









A telephone call from the police provides

him with further evidence and leads Quinn reluctantly but inevitably to the

conclusion of this fast-paced novel. The Quiet Woman is a story of ordinary people engulfed in

frightening events. It will challenge even the most astute.