The Grindle Nightmare
By Q. Patrick
1935
First Published
3.33
Average Rating
160
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The quiet New England village of Grindle was the last place in the world where murder might be expected. Vultures, traditional heralds of death in the valley, had not roosted in Grindle Oak for more than a hundred years. But now they swarmed there, sinister omens of death to follow. For a murderer stalked the woods and fields of Grindle, a creature whose twisted mind took fiendish joy in killing. And soon the signs began to appear—a dead monkey, savagely eviscerated ... the mutilated body of a kitten... And then a man, drifting face down in the shallow waters of a pond, a man who had been killed slowly by dragging his body behind a moving car...
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3.33
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Author
Q. Patrick
Author · 9 books
Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (19 March 1912 – 26 July 1987), Richard Wilson Webb (August 1901 – December 1966), Martha Mott Kelly (30 April 1906–2005) and Mary Louise White Aswell (3 June 1902 – 24 December 1984) wrote detective fiction. In some foreign countries their books have been published under the variant Quentin Patrick. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone. Their most famous creation is the amateur sleuth Peter Duluth. In 1963, the story collection The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America.
