The Swimming Pool by Rinehart, Mary Roberts - 1970

Dell Books. Fair. 1970. Paperback. The spine and both covers, next to the spine, are creased from reading. The pages are clean, no tears or soiling. The pages and binding are tight. All three page edges are green stained. The spine has been clear-taped to re-enforce it. The front cover has multiple creases with a heavy one at the lower right corner. Both left corners of the back cover are creased. The edges of the covers and the covers are scuffed from shelf wear. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 303 pages; When beautiful young Judith Maynard left The Birches, it was to marry a fabulously wealthy older man who swore to make her every dream come true. Just as Lois Maynard is about to sell the family summer home, her domineering older sister, Judith, returns, her lovely face was hallow-cheeked, her eyes nervous with terror, her marriage mysteriously shasttered, her dream turned into a nighmare. Yet she would reveal to no one what strange curse had blighted her life -and now had turned this, her last refuge, into a deadly trap. Desperately afraid, Judith Chandler barricades herself in her bedroom. Her sister, detective novelist Lois facing an eminent deadline, has no patience for Judith's bizarre behavior. However, a real-life mystery unfolds when Judith disappears from her locked room without a trace. Will combine shipping on more than one book. .