![]() ![]() Surprisingly, paradise transforms to a place of sinister doings when a smuggler washes up dead in a nearby cove and then a young Greek guy drowns off the coast of Albania, – both seemingly unconnected. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story surrounds an out of work actress, Lucy Waring, who travels to the idyllic Ionian Island of Corfu to spend time with her sister and contemplate her future. One such novel was This Rough Magic, a mid-sixties tale with plenty of romance, lashings of intrigue and a soupçon of golden lipstick. Strong women with good hearts were her “anti-namby-pamby” reaction, as she called it, to the “silly heroine types” of conventional contemporary thrillers, that might be told, “it’s imperative you don’t open the door for anybody,” then immediately lay down a welcome mat during a power-cut to any creep wielding wire-cutters. British author, Mary Stewart was a pioneer of romantic-suspense novels and appeared regularly on bestseller lists at a time when Alfred Hitchcock was producing the kind of glamorous and colourful movies that attracted the likes of Grace Kelly and Cary Grant.Įxotic locations were a feature of her work, as were smart, highly educated young women thrust into daring adventures from which they’d emerge intact and happily romantically involved. ![]()
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