New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. Book. Illus. by Paul Bacon;. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 154 pp. Quarter-bound in red cloth on green boards; lettered in white on the spine; green endpapers; headband. Dj art by Paul Bacon. Very light rubbing around the edges of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. When a young mother from Kansas travels to New York to be with her seriously ill husband at Christmas, her young son sees another woman steal his mother's wallet, and follows the thief into the subway....

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In Silent Night , America's most beloved writer of suspense has crafted a very special story about the power of love, and of a child's courage and faith. When her husband was diagnosed with leukemia, Catherine Dornan and their two young sons accompanied him to New York, during the Christmas season, for a life-saving operation. Hoping to divert the boys from worry about their father, and to temper her own near despair, on Christmas Eve Catherine takes the boys to see Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree. When they stop to listen to a street musician, Brian, the younger boy, sees a woman take his mother's wallet, which holds a precious memento his grandmother has just given them, a St. Christopher medal that saved her husband's life in World War II, and which she and Brian believe will save his father's life now. Unable to get his mother's attention, Brian impulsively follows the woman who has taken the wallet into the city's subways, thereby beginning a journey that will threaten his life and change that of his mother and of the thief, as well. Written with warmth, yet set against a background of menace and thrilling suspense, Silent Night is about courage in the face of adversity, and faith renewed and faith rewarded. It is Mary Higgins Clark's Christmas gift for readers of all seasons.

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Bookseller: W. Fraser Sandercombe (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 228342
Title: SILENT NIGHT - A Novel
Author: Clark, Mary Higgins
Illustrator: Paul Bacon;
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+
Jacket Condition: Very Good+
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0684815451
ISBN 13: 9780684815459
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1995
Size: 8vo
Keywords: gaslight; noir; pulp; hard boiled; police; whodunit; christmas; xmas; yule; yuletide; noel; winter holiday; santa claus; father christmas; krampus; saint nicholas; st. nick; christian; jesus christ; religion; spiritual; whodunnit; detection; investigation
Bookseller catalogs: Mystery and Detective; Christmas Books;

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