โ Scribed by Margaret Millar
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
**Charlotte Keating, a doctor and woman of independent means, is slowly pulled into a shadowy realm of violence and desperation after she investigates the suspicious death of a young woman she had recently declined to provide an illegal abortion.
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After Charlotte "Charley" Keating turns away a patient seeking an abortion she struggles with the ethical quandaries of such an act. As a feminist she would have liked to help the young girl in trouble but as a doctor with a practice and other patients counting on her she doesn't feel like she can risk breaking the law for a complete stranger. When the poor girl turns up dead, Charley's entire life is thrown into chaos.
Perhaps Margaret Millar's most controversial book--and certainly among her best--Do Evil in Return is a meticulously plotted and suspenseful meditation on abortion and the hypocrisy of the laws governing a woman's body. Millar may be known as the Grande Dame of domestic suspense, but this...
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