The People In Glass House (Inner Sanctum Mystery) by June Drummond SUSPENSE 1969

Description: 1969. First US Printing. Simon & Schuster. Hardcover. Condition is Very Good. Pages look Brand New except pages 88 and 89 which have two small bits of glue substance on the top of the page that damaged the outer layers of the opposite page. All other pages clean with no tears, stains, or writing. Inner covers clean. Hardcover has minor color fading on the sides but is in Very Good condition with no stains, tears, or damage to corners. The dust jacket is Very Good with some dirt marks and some wear and tears around the edges , most significantly a half an inch tear on the top of the spine. See photos for item condition. This is a suspense novel of power play within an industrial empire, of putative bastardy, of vicious blackmail. It centers around the Villierses - mother and son- who control this vast empire. The mother, Grace Villiers, does not have long to live, and she wants her son, Adam, to take over the presidency as the natural heir. Wally Kepple, the director of finance (and Grace's lover) also wants the presidency. Only his love for Grace holds him back- while she is still alive. On Christmas night they are paid a visit at Glass House-the corporation's London domain-by Emma Salt. She makes it clear to them that she intends to blackmail the Villierses. Adam hires a private detective to unravel the mysterious but definite threat Emma seems to offer. Their investigations lead them to New York and Amsterdam and uncover parts of the Villiers history that even Grace and Adam hadn't known about. Emma Salt's threat of blackmail takes on a more menacing tone when it becomes clear that the basis for her threat lies even farther afield and involves a price - less collection of jewels, reputedly stolen many years before. The bringing of family skeletons to light, the concomitant power play and, most intriguing of all, the investigation leading to who Emma Salt really is are themes that are finely interwoven to make a splendid suspense novel, written with the wit, the economy, and the style one has come to expect from June Drummond. Edmund Crispin wrote of her last novel, The Gantry Episode, "Logically satisfying, admirably contrived and continuously absorbing." His judgment would most definitely apply to this latest one.

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