The Innocent

By: Evelyn Piper

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Synopsis: Living in a dead woman&’s shadow, a young bride fights to stay sane After years of rotten luck with men, Marjorie thinks Charles Carter is a miracle. He&’s dashing, urbane, and so terribly passionate—until his heart is snatched away by another woman, leaving Marjorie alone and expecting a child. The desertion is unbearable, but then there&’s a stroke of luck: The first Mrs. Carter drops dead, and Marjorie steps right into her place. Now she has everything she ever wanted, a perfect apartment, perfect husband, perfect child. But she&’s beginning to sense that something is terribly wrong. A chance phone call awakens Marjorie&’s suspicions that the first Mrs. Carter&’s death was more than a tragic fluke. Isolated in her luxurious New York high rise, she becomes obsessed with the idea that her seemingly perfect life is founded on a murder—and that the killer will strike again.