Stranger At Home [Paperback]

Leigh Brackett (Author), George Sanders (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2004

Give a man enough rope and he'll hang-someone! About: A book written to cash in on the success of film actor George Sanders, and ghost-written by Leigh Brackett, whom the supposed author claims never to have met. Stranger at Home is the story of Mike Vickers, back home from the dead, and trying to find out who among his family tried to get him out of the way in the first place.

Product Details

• Paperback: 140 pages
• Publisher: blackmask.com (December 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596541458
• ISBN-13: 978-1596541450
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #770,745 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, standard mystery, June 4, 2008

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Margaret Plichta "rosieplichta" (Muskegon, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stranger At Home (Paperback)

This book was written to take advantage of the popularity of the British actor George Sanders, who was credited with writing the story. It was actually written by a woman named Leigh Brackett, who was more of a science fiction writer, but she does a good job here.

The plot is simple. A man named Michael Vickers, on a trip with three buddies in Mexico, is assaulted, and disappears. He was never found, and people assume he has been killed. Of course, this is not the case. He comes back home to his life in Los Angeles after having been missing for four years, and determined to find out who tried to kill him.

This book is fast reading, and a very typical 1940's pot-boiler. Michael Vickers has a beautiful wife, of course, and a large estate, and pots of money. And although it is somewhat pretentious in that regard, the story is fun, and it is not easy to figure out who actually was involved in the crime. There are a couple of cool red herrings, and a plot twist at the end, all of which make it a fun read.