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008			210312n1994 gw ||||| |||| 00||||eng
020			_a0552135267
100			_aSteel, Danielle _c
245			_aVanished _b
260			_aLondon _b'Corgi Books _c1994
300			_a382 S.
520			_aDespite some redundancies and dimensionless supporting characters, Steel's 31st novel is a potent blend of romance and intrigue. When Marielle Delauney marries New York steel magnate Malcolm Patterson in 1939, she does not tell him of her tragic past--neither the drowning accident that claimed her first child, nor the subsequent beating by her husband Charles that caused her to miscarry, nor the two years she spent recovering in a sanitorium. But what does the enigmatic Malcolm already know? When they have their own child, Teddy, Malcolm, to all appearances, is an adoring father. The still-vulnerable Marielle begins to gain self-confidence, even though she endures daily confrontations with a hostile and even sinister household staff. Then the day after Marielle has a chance meeting with Charles, who drunkenly makes vague threats against Teddy, the four-year-old is snatched from his room, the nanny and nurse chloroformed and gagged. The FBI is summoned, Marielle's past is exposed by a frenzied media and Charles is arrested. But where is Teddy?
650			_aEnglischliteratur
650			_aFiction
650			_aTragedy
650			_aChild Abuse
650			_aAbduction
650			_aTopic
942			_cBK
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