Lost boy, lost girl a novel

Straub, Peter 1943- (Author).

Summary: A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son -- beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill -- vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy Underhill, Mark's inexplicable absence feels like a second death. After his sister-in-law's funeral, Tim searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help him unravel this mystery of death and disappearance. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother's suicide Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house on Michigan Street whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain.

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ISBN: 9781588363169 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
ISBN: 1588363163 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
ISBN: 9781588363169 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
ISBN: 1588363163 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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281 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Random House, c2003.

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Electronic reproduction. New York : Random House Pub. Group, 2003. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 710 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 346 KB).