I must say I would never have picked up this old paperback if it weren’t for Norah Lofts’ name on it the cover illustration not being at all indicative of what a great read was hidden inside. Norah Lofts, mistress of the art of historical romance, occasionally let herself go in a very different direction and wrote a number of thrillers under the name Peter Curtis, adopting the pseudonym in order to avoid disappointing fans of the romances who would associate her name with a certain type of story. I love these sorts of unexpected developments. Stevenson’s Charlotte Fairlie (which is an appropriate Christmas book for reasons I’ll enlarge on when I return to it) to talk about Norah Lofts’ village-with-dark-secrets instead. But I am so tickled by my discovery of it that I’ve bumped down my review of D.E. This is definitely not a Christmas-time read. Previously published as The Devil’s Own (1960) and The Witches (1966), under the pseudonym Peter Curtis. The Little Wax Doll by Norah Lofts ~ originally published in 1960, and re-released under this title and author’s name in 1970.
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