A Stranger Is Watching

For the film, see A Stranger Is Watching (film).
A Stranger Is Watching
First edition cover
AuthorMary Higgins Clark
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller novel
PublisherSimon & Schuster
Publication date
1977
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages256 pp (first edition hardcover)
ISBN0-671-23071-9 (first edition hardcover)
OCLC3380058
813/.5/4
LC ClassPZ4.C5942 St 1978 PS3553.L287
Preceded byWhere Are the Children? 
Followed byThe Cradle Will Fall 

A Stranger Is Watching (1977) is a suspense novel by Mary Higgins Clark.[1]

Plot summary

The main characters in the novel are Steve Peterson, whose wife Nina was murdered two years before, his six-year-old son Neil, who witnessed the murder, and Sharon Martin, a young journalist who befriends them both. The novel opens as Steve and Sharon debate capital punishment. A young man named Ronald Thompson has been sentenced to death for Nina's murder. Sharon is against the death penalty and tries to save Thompson. Unknown to them, Thompson is actually innocent. The real killer is a psychopath named August Rommel Taggart, Arty for short. He calls himself Foxy because General Rommel was called the desert fox. He kidnaps Sharon and Neil, hiding them under New York's famed Grand Central Station. The rest of the novel describes the race against time to save the three innocent people.

Film adaptation

The novel was made into a 1982 film starring Rip Torn, James Naughton, and Kate Mulgrew.

References

  1. ^ Lois Smith Brady (1996-12-08). "Mary Higgins Clark, John Conheeney". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2012-11-11. Retrieved 2012-03-29.