Wingarden [Hardcover]

Elsie Lee (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 228 pages
• Publisher: Arbor House (1971)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0877950199
• ISBN-13: 978-0877950196
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,274,943 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This author should be kept in print!, April 29, 2000

By 

Anne M. Marble "Anne" (MD, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wingarden (Hardcover)

Anybody who thinks Gothic novels were always about wimpy heroines in flimsy nightgowns... hasn't read an Elsie Lee novel. Her heroines were smart, witty, often even wordly. Chloe Wingate can keep up with any hero. Even when she's frightened, she doesn't wimp out and depend on somebody else to get her out of a jam.

Also, Elsie Lee wasn't afraid to deal with controversial issues. In Wingarden, the heroine unearths violent racial prejudice in the South during the 1960s.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wingarden, January 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Wingarden (Hardcover)

This is a wonderful story of an intelligent woman and a mystery surrounding a house she inherited. A great who-done-it to the end!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Elsie Lee's best book, September 24, 2010

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Amos Williams - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wingarden (Paperback)

Elsie Lee was a Manhattan based writer who wrote prolifically in the 60s and 70s,

and this is considered her best Gothic novel. She also wrote cookbooks, and she recommended to her agent Bill Berger that he handle a writer friend of hers, Lawrence Sanders, who was having difficulty getting his first book published, The Anderson Tapes. WINGARDEN is a book that is written on a level that is far superior to what was being put out during her era by her sister writers in this genre, and on a personal level she was a warm, congenial and fun loving person to hang out with socially.