Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN num: 9780385003230
ISBN number: 0385003234
Label: DoubleDay
Manufacturer: DoubleDay
Page Count: 251
Printing Date: 1971-06
Publishing house: DoubleDay
Sale Popularity Level: 276226
Studio: DoubleDay
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A Novel of Romantic Suspense
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Someone at work left this little book out to share with whoever might be interested. I picked it up at break one day and was hooked with the very first few pages. I love mysteries. I do not read romance usually, and had decided that if I ever read another suspense romance type novel, I deserved to suffer. This is a suspense romance and it is a delight. Not gushy as others have said. Also, not explicit. Actually, very innocent and romantic with enough suspense and mystery to keep one reading.
Wish this had become a series because I truly liked the main characters. Complex personalities develop so that you can see why they have their quirks. At the end, I wanted all the main characters to have a happy ending.
Suspensful. The young heroine is in danger, and the reader tries to figure out who is true and who is not. Some nice twists and turns. I actually checked the copyright on the book to see how old it was. It certainly sounded like it had been written when women had few rights. The heroine was, of course, a bit ahead of her time and it is always nice to read of a woman using her intelligence and wit to successfully defy some restrictions that society, as a whole, placed on women, without alienating everyone and ending up a spinster.
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Cadi thinks her life is over when her father dies. But, when a kindly gentleman offers to make her like a daughter, she jumps at the chance. Made a part of the family, Cadi feels comfortable sharing the details of her grandmother's mysterious amnesia. It turns out that Cadi is actually an Italian heiress, which puts her life in danger.
This is one of the best romances I've read- you won't be disappointed!
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Luckily for me, this is the very first Madeleine Brent book I read and also the very first one that he/she wrote.
It got me hooked on his/her writing. Of course after you have read the subsequent few books, you see that there is a definite pattern to his/her work. A heroine who is alone, friendless but with lots of spirit who manages to prevail over great adversity.
Part of the joy of reading a brent are the exotic locales although this book is set primarly in Britain. A unique writer who is head and shoulders above the rest.
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THIS RAPIDLY-CHANGING PLOT KEPT MY INTEREST THROUGHOUT--WHICH IS MIRACULOUS, SINCE I BECOME EASILY BORED WITH SO-SO PLOTS AND USUALLY FIND MYSELF YAWNING A GIVING UP ON A BOOK BEFORE I FINISH IT!! BUT THIS ONE KEPT ME UP LATE, READING "JUST ONE MORE PAGE"( WHICH USUALLY TURNED INTO A CHAPTER) I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO ANYONE SEEKING A SUSPENSEFUL, ADVENTUROUS BOOK LADEN WITH MOMENTS OF HEART-STOPPING INTRIGUE, SPRINKLED BY "I-WONDER-WHO-THAT-WAS"? MYSTERY AND A TINGE OF ROMANCE.THE HERIONE WAS LOVABLE AND ADMIRABLE WITH HER FAST WIT AND HER ABILITY TO HANDLE TOUGH SITUATIONS--THE CHARACTERIZATION WAS MASTERFUL AND MS. BRENT'S DESCRIPTIVE STYLE WAS MOST APPEALING. AS ALWAYS, HER BOOKS GIVE A HISTORICAL BACKGROUND THAT WAS MOST INFORMATIVE AND INTERESTING- JUST A VERY GOOD READ.
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Why is Madeleine Brent out of print???!!! Her books are so much fun to read. I got addicted to her with GOLDEN URCHIN and have loved her ever since. Her very first gothic novel TREGARON'S DAUGHTER is highly suspenseful, completely unpredictable and has the stuff of the best film noir if it were made into a movie. Cadi Tregaron's voyages from a small English fishing village to the luxury of the kindly and well to do Morton family in Kent to the romance and mystery of Venice, Italy keep the reader's mind full of lush visuals and presents characters you like and care about. Excellent reading!!!
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