In 2019, she published her latest detective,
In Secret
.
Until the end, Mary Higgins Clark did not leave her pen, always enjoying exploring the failings of the human soul in gripping intrigues.
The one whom the world of literature agrees to describe as the “
queen of suspense
” died at the age of 92, on January 31.
His fifty works sold a hundred million copies during his lifetime.
Many of them will continue to give chills to the children and grandchildren of readers who mourn the novelist today.
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Night of the Fox
, 1977
It was with this work, the second of her career, translated into French in 1979, that the novelist became famous in France.
So much so that the publishing house Albin Michel decided to create a collection at the same time, entitled “Spécial Suspens”.
The plot of
The Night of the Fox
is explosive.
A 19-year-old, Ronald, must be put in the electric chair for killing a woman.
The victim's son said he recognized him.
But just before Ronald is killed, the boy is kidnapped.
And his captor threatens to blow up New York Central Station... The novel was awarded the Grand Prix for Detective Literature in 1980.
●
The Clinic of Doctor H.
, 1980
A gynecologist renowned for performing miracles;
the body of a woman in the trunk of a car.
This chilling novel has been the subject of several television adaptations.
In 2015, Olivier Barma gave the role of the doctor to Aurélien Recoing, who appeared particularly worrying.
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We will no longer go to the woods
, 1992
Mary Higgins Clark keeps the reader in suspense by casting suspicion on a 21-year-old girl.
She is accused of the murder of her teacher.
Laura swears she remembers nothing.
While she is in turmoil, disturbing pieces of her past reappear - violence suffered in her childhood - and overwhelm her.
The novelist blurs
the border between madness and reason in
We will no longer go to the woods .
●
A sweet song
, 2013
The writer continues to explore the family dramas in this story which, as the chapters go by, becomes more and more intense.
It begins with an explosion in the early morning, in a family factory producing copies of antique furniture.
Kate, the girl, who was there, is suspected.
His sister doesn't believe it and wants to clear him.
A series of murders of women could well have unsuspected links with the factory.
Then aged 84, Mary Higgins Clark proved that her imagination remained as Machiavellian as ever.
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