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  • Published: 12 October 1986
  • ISBN: 9780449211779
  • Imprint: Ballantine
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $19.99

The Tightrope Walker

A Novel




"A superb book."
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
When quiet, shy Amelia Jones reads a desperate message that has fallen out of a barrel organ in the antique shop she just bought, she can't forget the words, "They're going to kill me soon..." Armed only with the woman's first name and the note written years before, Amelia begins a journey into the past, a search that takes her from the protective cocoon she's wrapped herself in to a precarious world where nothing is the way it seems, where fear is second nature, and dark secrets just might uncover murder--her own....

  • Published: 12 October 1986
  • ISBN: 9780449211779
  • Imprint: Ballantine
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $19.99

About the author

Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman was born in New Jersey, U.S.A., and studied art in Philadelphia for five years, and published her first book in 1948. Her first Mrs Pollifax adventure appeared in 1966 and she has now written ten books in the series as well as other novels, short stories and children's books.