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The Night of the Hunter

by Davis Grubb
Julia Keller
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The bestselling, National Book Award–finalist novel that inspired Charles Laughton’s expressionist horror classic starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters.
 
Two young children, Pearl and John Harper, are being raised alone by their mother in Cresap’s Landing, Ohio. Their father Ben has just been executed for killing two men in the course of an armed robbery. Ben never told anyone where he hid the ten thousand dollars he stole; not his widow Willa, not his lawyer, nor his cell-mate Henry “Preacher” Powell. But Preacher, with his long history of charming his way into widows’ hearts and lives, has an inkling that Ben's money could be within his reach. As soon as he is free, Preacher makes his way up the river to visit the Harper family where—he hopes—a little child shall lead him to the fortune that he seeks.
 
Foreword by JULIA KELLER
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Series: A Vintage Movie Classic Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: June 30, 2015

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781101910061
  • File size: 769 KB
  • Release date: June 30, 2015

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781101910061
  • File size: 769 KB
  • Release date: June 30, 2015

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Kindle Book
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subjects

Fiction Mystery Thriller

Languages

English

The bestselling, National Book Award–finalist novel that inspired Charles Laughton’s expressionist horror classic starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters.
 
Two young children, Pearl and John Harper, are being raised alone by their mother in Cresap’s Landing, Ohio. Their father Ben has just been executed for killing two men in the course of an armed robbery. Ben never told anyone where he hid the ten thousand dollars he stole; not his widow Willa, not his lawyer, nor his cell-mate Henry “Preacher” Powell. But Preacher, with his long history of charming his way into widows’ hearts and lives, has an inkling that Ben's money could be within his reach. As soon as he is free, Preacher makes his way up the river to visit the Harper family where—he hopes—a little child shall lead him to the fortune that he seeks.
 
Foreword by JULIA KELLER
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Fiction Mystery Thriller
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