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Name: I want to go home
Author: Richard Lockridge

📘 I want to go home by Richard Lockridge

In Los Angeles in the fall of 1947, war widow Jane Phillips, who has been in the WAVES for four years, prepares to return to her rich aunt in Westchester, New York. During her train ride, Jane encounters strange coincidences and acts of violence, as if someone is trying to delay her homecoming. In her last illness, Aunt Susan is surrounded by members of her family who are waiting impatiently for her to die. They'll stop at nothing to ensure Jane doesn't alter her will to favor her niece, leading to a hair-raising climax in this top-drawer Lockridge thriller. The story is written in large type and is part of the Fiction genre.

First publish date: 1993

Genre: Suspense/General Suspense

Authors: Richard Lockridge

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