Mischief: Four Suspense Novels Of The 1950s - Mischief; The Blunderer; Beast In View; Fool's Gold

By: Charlotte Armstrong

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Synopsis: A child is left in the care of a disturbed babysitter in &“surely one of the finest pure terror-suspense stories ever written&” (The New York Times). Bunny&’s parents shouldn&’t have brought her to New York City, but her father has an important speech to make, and her mother couldn&’t bear to be away from their darling nine-year-old daughter. And when her mommy and daddy leave for the speech, Bunny will stay in the hotel with a babysitter, sound asleep and perfectly safe. What could possibly go wrong? The sitter is Nell, a plain young woman from Indiana. She puts Bunny to bed and amuses herself in the other room, making prank calls and trying on Bunny&’s mother&’s jewelry. So far, all is well. But Nell&’s dull expression conceals madness, and something is broken inside her mind . . . From one of the greatest female crime writers of the mid-twentieth century, an Edgar Award winner and six-time finalist, Mischief is &“a fine, chilly combination of horror and suspense&” (The New Yorker).