Type: Hardcover Condition: Used, Great. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Light rubbing wear on the cover and spine. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages. Details: While My Pretty One Sleeps by Mary Higgins Clark *Vintage 1989 ISBN: 14873 Pages: 220 Published: 1989 WHILE MY PRETTY ONE SLEEPS Mary Higgins Clark is the acknowledged master of best-selling suspense. Her new novel, eagerly awaited by all her many devoted readers, will lift them to new heights of terror-and pleasure. Set against the glittering world of New York's fashion industry, While My Pretty One Sleeps begins with the murder of Ethel Lambston, a famous gossip writer, whose forthcoming book threatens to expose the secrets of some of the most powerful— and glamorous-figures in the world of fashion. At its center is Neeve Kearny, owner of an expensive Madison Avenue boutique where Ethel shopped, daughter of a former New York City Police Commis-sioner, a beautiful young woman still trying to overcome the horror of her mother's murder seventeen years ago, in what seemed to have been a pointless act of revenge.... Drawn into the drama of Ethel's death, Neeve soon finds herself in danger, puzzled, as is everyone, by the sheer number of people who might have had a reason for the killing: the wealthy dress manufac-turer, whose mob connections and sweatshop factories have been exposed; Ethel's debt-ridden ex-husband, crazed by having to pay alimony every month to a woman who has all the money she needs and more; her ne'er-do-well nephew and sole heir, who has moved into her apartment, seemingly aware that she has disappeared.... Neeve plunges into this tangled, dangerous web, not realizing that her own life is threatened, haunted by the feeling that the clue to the murder is some-