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| Author | Lois Duncan |
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| Language | English |
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| Publisher | Doubleday |
They Never Came Home is a 1968 mystery-thriller novel by Lois Duncan. [1] [2] The novel was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award. [3]
| First edition cover art | |
| Author | Lois Duncan |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
They Never Came Home is a 1968 mystery-thriller novel by Lois Duncan. [1] [2] The novel was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award. [3]
Teenage friends Larry and Dan go missing after embarking on a hiking trip. Upon investigation, a stranger claims that one of the boys owed him $2,000, prompting Joan, a sister of one of the boys, to begin her own search for them.
A second edition was published in 2012, updating the story to modern times. Changes included references to cell phones and the Internet, as well as adjusting the money owed to $50,000.
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Down a Dark Hall is a 1974 young adult gothic novel by Lois Duncan. The book follows Kit Gordy, who is sent to a boarding school where only four students are admitted including herself. The students suddenly develop new talents, with Kit waking up one night playing a musical piece she has never heard. After they are told that they have been channeling the spirits of talented historical figures, Kit tries to escape the school before the bond between the spirits and the students becomes permanent.
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Summer of Fear is a 1976 American horror novel by Lois Duncan. The plot follows a teenaged girl who suspects her recently orphaned cousin is practicing witchcraft. The novel was adapted into a 1978 film by Wes Craven.
Stranger with My Face is a young adult horror novel by Lois Duncan, first published in 1981. The novel is about Laurie Stratton, who is seen by others in places she knows she could not be. She discovers that she has an identical sister named Lia who has been visiting her town using astral projection, which involves sending her soul outside her body. Laurie learns astral projection and uses it to look for her sister. During this time, Lia's spirit takes control of Laurie's body. The story describes Laurie's struggle to take back control of her body. The novel explores themes of appearance versus true self and the idea of a double, someone similar but not quite the same as someone else. Duncan got the idea for the book after hearing about the concept of astral projection, which she thought would make a great plot for a novel. In 2011, the novel was updated with text to modernize the content.
Don't Look Behind You is a 1989 young adult thriller novel by Lois Duncan. It won a number of regional awards and was adapted into a television film in 1999.
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Peggy is a 1970 historical novel by Lois Duncan. It is a semi-fictionalized account of the life of Peggy Shippen, the second wife of General Benedict Arnold, a prominent figure in Philadelphia after the American Revolutionary War.
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Point of Violence is a 1966 thriller novel by Lois Duncan. It is one of Duncan's few novels written primarily for adults. It follows a young widow who finds herself being stalked while hiding at a remote beach house after the murder of her husband.
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