In The Dark Night
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
On the rugged, fog-drenched coast of Maine, detective Gil Donan is drawn into a web of shadows and secrets that only the darkest of nights could conceal — Margaret Page Hood's In the Dark Night is a masterwork of mid-century American mystery fiction that crackles with atmospheric tension from its very first page. Hood chronicles Donan's investigation into a crime that cuts through the quiet veneer of a coastal New England community, where every local face masks a potential deceiver and the landscape itself seems to conspire against the truth. Hood, also celebrated for The Scarlet Thread and The Silent Women, brings to bear a precise, evocative prose style that transforms the Maine coastline into a brooding character in its own right — its tidal rhythms and eerie silences amplifying the human drama at the story's core. Her plotting is methodical yet surprising, drawing readers deep into a moral labyrinth where loyalty, greed, and desperation collide. For devotees of golden-age detective fiction with a distinctly American flavour, this Gil Donan mystery poses a question that will linger long after the final page: in a place this beautiful and this remote, how well can anyone truly know their neighbours?
Author: Margaret Page Hood
Format: Hardback
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
On the rugged, fog-drenched coast of Maine, detective Gil Donan is drawn into a web of shadows and secrets that only the darkest of nights could conceal — Margaret Page Hood's In the Dark Night is a masterwork of mid-century American mystery fiction that crackles with atmospheric tension from its very first page. Hood chronicles Donan's investigation into a crime that cuts through the quiet veneer of a coastal New England community, where every local face masks a potential deceiver and the landscape itself seems to conspire against the truth. Hood, also celebrated for The Scarlet Thread and The Silent Women, brings to bear a precise, evocative prose style that transforms the Maine coastline into a brooding character in its own right — its tidal rhythms and eerie silences amplifying the human drama at the story's core. Her plotting is methodical yet surprising, drawing readers deep into a moral labyrinth where loyalty, greed, and desperation collide. For devotees of golden-age detective fiction with a distinctly American flavour, this Gil Donan mystery poses a question that will linger long after the final page: in a place this beautiful and this remote, how well can anyone truly know their neighbours?