The Road Through The Wall
Back Cover Text:author of THE LOTTERY
Tragic accident or shocking crime? A climax hung on the gruesome death of two children...
Everyone Knew the Residents of Pepper St. Were "NICE" People -
especially the residents themselves. Among the self-satisfied group were: Mrs. Merriam, the sanctimonious shrew who was turning her husband into a nonentity and her daughter into a bigoted spinster; Mr. Roberts, who found relief from the street's unending propriety in shoddy side-street amours; Miss Fielding, who considered it more important to boil an egg properly than to save a disturbed girl from destruction.
It took the gruesome act of a desperate boy who lived among them to pierce the shell of their complacency and force them to see their own ugliness.
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