A Stranger Is Watching

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author = Mary Higgins Clark
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Thriller novel
publisher = Simon & Schuster
release_date = 1977
media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
pages = 256 pp (first edition hardcover)
isbn = ISBN 0-671-23071-9 (first edition hardcover)
preceded_by = Where Are The Children?
followed_by = The Cradle Will Fall

"A Stranger is Watching" (1977) is a suspense novel by Mary Higgins Clark.

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 though). 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 victims.

Film Adaptations

The novel was made into a film in 1982 starring Rip Torn, David Naughton, Kate Mulgrew and Shawn von Schreiber.

Reviews

The critics praised Clark both for her ability to create suspense and believeable characters.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084735/ A Stranger is Watching Internet Movie Database entry]