Letter of Intent

✍ Scribed by Curtiss, Ursula (Reilly)

• Publisher: Dodd, Mead
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 116 KB
• Series: A Red badge novel of suspense
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN-13: 9780396063568

✦ Synopsis

The woman in Room 218 took the harmless-looking white envelope from the bellboy and opened it with only mechanical interest. Then, stupid with shock, she read the printed, unsigned message: “I’ve been waiting for this. If you don’t call off the wedding, I will.”

Surely, the woman thought, she could identify who...? And she could do something about it.

But who was the bride? Who had threatened her? And what was Celia’s role in this? Celia, who was as sleekly striking as a leopard—and as dangerous. She had been a heavy, dowdy, inarticulate girl of eighteen when she had left the tenement in a New England slum to work for the rich, pleasant Stevensons. If it had not been for an unfortunate episode with the -Stevensons’ son, she would never have become old Mr. Tomlinson’s housekeeper. Here, behind a mask of innocence, she maneuvered the first shocking tragedy that was to start her on the precarious climb to a world she was determined to enter, a world she had known only as an outsider.

Letter of Intent is a chilling psychological drama about a woman, driven by ambition, who would use any weapon against her adversaries. The tension mounts until the action reaches an unexpected shattering climax.

✦ Subjects

Fiction