Mary Higgins Clarke in general

Mary Higgins Clark is a very well known American writer of Crime novels and all of the 24 books or so that she has written She managed to get published became best sellers in the United States and also in many other countries around Europe. Mary was born on the 24/12/1927 in the Bronx region of New York. Her parents were Irish Immigrants and they lived off their profits of the Irish Pub. They owned their own home in the Bronx and also had a summer home on Long Island Sand. In all they experienced a very good life until Mary was about 10 years of age and things started to go wrong and they started to find things hard. In 1939 when she came back ...  Read the complete review

Once when in Cairo I saw a stall on the bazaar selling English and American paperbacks without a cover. I didn’t buy one, although they were very cheap, not because of the warning printed in all pocketbooks “... If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that it was reported to the publisher as ‘unsold and destroyed’. Neither the author nor the publisher has received payment for the sale of this 'stripped book'”, but because the books were so dirty. But let’s imagine I’d bought a thriller by Mary Higgins Clark (MHC) without a cover and also without the first pages which give the ...  Read the complete review

Mary Higgins-Clark is one of my favourite authors,up to now I have read sixteen of her books.She is a thriller and suspence writer,I find her books very hard to put down once I have started them,you now how it is,there's never a good place to finish reading them. My favourite book by her was All around the town,although to be fair I've liked all her books and look forward to any new ones that she writes. I can't remember the title of one that was made into a film,although I enjoyed it you lose a lot of details that you imagine when reading which they never seem able to get across in a film. ...  Read the complete review