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Wilhelmina, a schoolgirl’s game, is the simple signature at the bottom of a letter from Willa Bedford. To her cousin, Grace Asherton, it has ominous overtones. Grace takes the coded message seriously and wires her cousin that she is on her way. The pieces of the puzzle gradually fit together as Grace embarks on a perilous search through the fascinating night world of Stockholm. This suspenseful story bristles with the kind of foreboding suspense that readers have come to expect from Dorothy Eden’s many fans.
First publish date: 1970
Genre: Thriller/Psychological Thriller
Authors: Dorothy Eden
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