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    Stranger in the Dark
    Stranger in the Dark
    Stranger in the Dark
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    Stranger in the Dark

    By Helen Nielsen

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    In a neatly handled story with a fresh setting, Helen Nielsen introduces Larry Willis, star salesman for an American farm equipment company, who earned a trip to Copenhagen for a business convention. With four days free before its opening, he wandered about in a lonely and bewildered state until a stranger addressed him as “MacDonald” and handing him a package containing three hundred dollars. From that moment on he was the busiest man in Copenhagen. He became the unwilling center of an intrigue that involved illegal smuggling of refugees from Russia, murder, and sundry other matters. In the end it netted him a whole new outlook on life, a girl, and a hero’s part in solving this fascinating puzzle.

    The characterization, atmosphere, and suspense give Helen Nielsen fans a full measure of her skill as a storyteller and offer the new reader an unexpected pleasure.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateMar 15, 2012
    ISBN9781440541308
    Stranger in the Dark
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    Helen Nielsen

    Helen Nielsen (1918–2002) was the author of numerous mystery novels and television scripts. Some of her scripts were for shows such as Perry Mason and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Some of her titles include Woman on the Roof, The Crime Is Murder, and Stranger in the Dark.

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    • 3/5
      The premise in “Stranger in the Dark” is that Larry Willis, an innocent bystander, bears a striking resemblance to someone else and, thus, while on a business trip to Copenhagen to attend a farm machinery convention, Willis gets somehow caught up in international intrigue and murder. It is a plot device that has been used in a number of other novels over the years and it keeps the reader fascinated because everything is a complete mystery. Here, Nielsen is a terrific writer and the force of her narrative moves this story along so that the reader just wants to know what is going on and what is going to happen. However, the plot is extremely convoluted and the motivations of the characters, particularly Willis himself, are not that strong. The book simply does not seem grounded and it is hard to care about what is going on when you don’t know what is really at stake for most of the book. It’s worth reading and hard to put down once you start, but, overall, it simply doesn’t leave the reader overly enthusiastic.

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