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A Cry in the Night

About The Book

12:10 a.m. When he pulled the girl out of the darkened car his intentions were simple and terrible

2:30 a.m. The tough police lieutenant found that the stolen girl was his daughter

3:57 a.m. A Shore Patrolman spotted the girl’s purse in a trash can outside the window of a Skid Row hotel

4:20 a.m.There was nothing in the bare hotel room but a torn up bed, a shattered window, a packet of needles, an icepick, and a pair of pliers

It was 5.20 a.m. before the police picked up the trail again

About The Author

Whit Masterson is a pen name for a partnership of two authors, Robert Allison "Bob" Wade (1920–2012) and H. Bill Miller (1920–1961). The two also wrote under several other pseudonyms, including Wade Miller and Will Daemer. Together they wrote more than thirty novels, several of which were adapted for film. Most famously, their novel Badge of Evil was adapted into the Orson Welles film Touch of Evil.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Prologue Books (February 15, 2012)
  • Length: 100 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781440540608

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