The Resource The Hellfire Club, Peter Straub
The Hellfire Club, Peter Straub
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Resource Information
The item The Hellfire Club, Peter Straub represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Ligonier Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- In Connecticut, a publisher's wife is taken hostage by a suspected killer making a getaway. The man, Dick Dart, was arrested as a suspect in the knifing death of four divorcees in their bedroom. He is intuitive and clever and Nora Chancel, who previously led the life of a bored housewife, can only stay alive by feeding his ego and outwitting him without seeming to do so. Over the next 10 days she grows in stature and courage
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xiv, 462 pages
- Isbn
- 9780679401377
- Label
- The Hellfire Club
- Title
- The Hellfire Club
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Straub
- Subject
-
- Kidnapping -- Connecticut -- Fiction
- trueRape
- trueFamily businesses
- Publishers and publishing -- Connecticut -- Fiction
- trueWomen kidnapping victims
- trueSecrets
- Serial murders -- Connecticut -- Fiction
- trueSerial murderers
- Connecticut -- Fiction
- truePublishers and publishing
- trueConnecticut
- trueHorror
- Women -- Crimes against -- Connecticut -- Fiction
- Mystery fiction
- trueAuthors
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In Connecticut, a publisher's wife is taken hostage by a suspected killer making a getaway. The man, Dick Dart, was arrested as a suspect in the knifing death of four divorcees in their bedroom. He is intuitive and clever and Nora Chancel, who previously led the life of a bored housewife, can only stay alive by feeding his ego and outwitting him without seeming to do so. Over the next 10 days she grows in stature and courage
- Summary
- Living with her weakling husband in a Connecticut town that has been the scene of four recent serial murders, housewife Nora Chancel is kidnapped by the acused killer and becomes his hostage on a perilous odyssey through New England, with the police in hot pursuit
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 057994
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1943-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Straub, Peter
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3569.T6914
- LC item number
- H45 1996
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Publishers and publishing
- Women
- Serial murders
- Kidnapping
- Connecticut
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Hellfire Club, Peter Straub
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 19025412
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xiv, 462 pages
- Isbn
- 9780679401377
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 95021773 //r972
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (DLC) 95021773 //r972
- Label
- The Hellfire Club, Peter Straub
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 19025412
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xiv, 462 pages
- Isbn
- 9780679401377
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 95021773 //r972
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (DLC) 95021773 //r972
Subject
- trueAuthors
- trueConnecticut
- Connecticut -- Fiction
- trueFamily businesses
- trueHorror
- Kidnapping -- Connecticut -- Fiction
- Mystery fiction
- truePublishers and publishing
- Publishers and publishing -- Connecticut -- Fiction
- trueRape
- trueSecrets
- trueSerial murderers
- Serial murders -- Connecticut -- Fiction
- Women -- Crimes against -- Connecticut -- Fiction
- trueWomen kidnapping victims
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