The Unsuspected is a mysterythriller novel by the American writer Charlotte Armstrong. It was originally serialized in the Saturday Evening Post in 1945 before being published in book form by Coward-McCann the following year.[1] Armstrong's previous three books had been a trilogy featuring the amateur detective MacDougal Duff, but she abandoned the character on the advice of her agent and produced a stand-alone suspense novel.[2]
Rosaleen, the secretary of celebrated former theatre and film director and current radio star Victor Grandison, is found hanging in his Connecticut house in an apparent suicide. Francis, her fiancee and Jane her cousin both reject this verdict. To discover more, Jane takes a job as Grandison's new secretary while Francis poses as the husband of his wealthy ward Matilda who disappeared at sea several weeks before.
Things take an additional turn when Matilda turns up, having been rescued from the sinking ship, and flatly doesn't recognize Francis as her husband followed by an additional suspicious suicide of Grandison's niece, the beautiful Althea. As Francis and Jane try to uncover the truth they are aware of the increasing danger for all of them.
Crowther, Bosley (1947-10-04). "'The Unsuspected,' New Warner Mystery, With Joan Coalfield and Michael North, at Strand -- 'Blonde Savage' at Rialto". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
Bibliographyedit
Cypert, Rick. The Virtue of Suspense: The Life and Works of Charlotte Armstrong. Associated University Press, 2008.
Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
Miller, Ron. Mystery Classics on Film: The Adaptation of 65 Novels and Stories. McFarland, 2017.
Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
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