A Cry in the Night

Mary Higgins Clark

Dell, 1983 - Fiction - 317 pages

"It was the sort of thing that happened only in fairy tales ... One day she was simply Jenny MacPartland--young, charming, divorced, working in a New York art gallery, struggling to support her two little girls--the next, she was a princess, lavishly courted by a handsome artist whose exquisite landscapes were making him famous virtually overnight. Until it became the stuff of nightmare. Married within a month, suddenly wealthy, adored, warmly cared for, Jenny knew she'd grow to love living on Erich Krueger's Minnesota farm. Until the lonely days and eerie nights strained her nerves to the breaking point and made her doubt her sanity ... until a chain of shattering events revealed the link to a past more terrifying than she dared imagine--a past that threatened her marriage, her children, her life."--Publisher's description

Contents

• Section 1: 14
• Section 2: 26
• Section 3: 43

About the author

Mary Higgins Clark was born in the Bronx, New York on December 24, 1927. After graduating from high school and before she got married, she worked as a secretary, a copy editor, and an airline stewardess. She supplemented the family's income by writing short stories. After her husband died in 1964, leaving her with five children, she worked for many years writing four-minute radio scripts before turning to novels. Her debut novel, Aspire to the Heavens, which is a fictionalized account of the life of George Washington, did not sell well. She decided to focus on writing mystery/suspense novels and in 1975 Where Are the Children? was published. She received a B.A. in philosophy from Fordham University in 1979. Her other works include While My Pretty One Sleeps, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Moonlight Becomes You, Pretend You Don't See Her, No Place Like Home, The Lost Years, The Melody Lingers On, As Time Goes By and Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry. She is the author of the Alvirah and Willy series, which began with Weep No More, My Lady. She is also the co-author, with her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, of several holiday crossover books including Deck the Halls, He Sees You When You're Sleeping, Santa Cruise, The Christmas Thief, and Dashing Through the Snow. She writes the Under Suspicion series with Alafair Burke. In 2001, Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir was published. She received numerous honors including the Grand Prix de Literature of France in 1980), the Horatio Alger Award in 1997, the Gold Medal of Honor from the American-Irish Historical Society, the Spirit of Achievement Award from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University the first Reader's Digest Author of the Year Award 2002 and the Christopher Life Achievement Award in 2003. Many of her titles have made the best sellers list. Her recent books include All By Myself, Alone, I've Got My Eyes On You, and You Don't Own Me. Bestselling suspense novelist, Mary Higgins Clark died on January 31, 2020 at the age of 92.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Cry in the Night; A Dell book
• Author: Mary Higgins Clark
• Publisher: Dell, 1983
• ISBN: 0440110653, 9780440110651
• Length: 317 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Psychological; Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense