Title: The Lady Vanishes
Author: Ethel Lina White
Number of pages: 192
Started: 22 March 2009
Finished: 24 March 2009
Opening words:
The day before the disaster, Iris Carr had her first premonition of danger. She was used to the protection of a crowd, whom -- with unconscious flattery -- she called "her friends." An attractive orphan of independent means, she had been surrounded always with clumps of people. They thought for her -- or rather, she accepted their opinions, and they shouted for her -- since her voice was rather too low in register, for mass social intercourse.
Read the first chapter here under its original name “The Wheel Spins”.
Plot summary:
Iris Carr, an English girl holidaying in the pre-war Balkans, becomes friendly with Miss Froy, to all appearances an innocent, middle-aged governess. Returning to England, Miss Froy disappears, and a doctor convinces Iris that she is suffering from hallucinations.
What I thought:
This book was ok. Nothing outstanding about it, but perfectly readable and a light diversion.
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