Virtual Lobby Display: Suspense

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..." With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew.

Somewhere in London a madman was at large. And then one night there came a knock at the door of a quiet lodging house in the Marylebone Road. This novel, based on the Jack the Ripper murders, was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock.

It isn't paranoia if it's really happening. Anna Fox lives alone - a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. Gazing out her window one night, Anna sees something she shouldn't, and her world begins to crumble. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control?

The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, who are taking a family vacation before their daughter leaves for college. But when Caitlin and her younger brother, Sean, go out for an early morning run and only Sean returns, the mountains become as terrifying as they are majestic.

Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue Trinder, an orphan: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will share in Maud's vast inheritance. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark.

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears.

Alicia Berenson's is a famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer. One evening when her husband Gabriel returns home late from work, Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word.

Tom Ripley is sent to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him - exactly like him.  Suave, agreeable, and utterly amoral, Ripley stops at nothing to accomplish his goal.

Walter Hartright meets the ethereal figure of a woman in white on a moonlit road who is familiar with Limmeridge House in Cumberland, where he is to take up employment as a drawing teacher. The mystery deepens when he learns that she, by all accounts, has escaped from an asylum.

When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, the firm leased him a BMW, paid off his loans, and arranged a mortgage. But Mitch should have remembered what his brother - doing 15 years in a Tennessee jail - already knew: You never get nothing for nothing.

The young wife of a diner owner conspires with an aimless drifter to murder her husband.

Rusty Sabicch is a chief deputy prosecutor in a large Midwestern city. With three weeks to go in his boss' re-election campaign, a member of Rusty's staff is found murdered; he is charged with finding the killer, until his boss loses and, incredibly, Rusty finds himself accused of the murder.

Jules has a new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile and mysterious buildings. She finds herself drawn to Ingrid, a fellow apartment sitter who confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems.

Soon after her 25th birthday, Libby Jones receives the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames. Everything in Libby's life is about to change.

Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.

Jon wants to be friends with Paul but finds herself constantly at odds with him over his efforts to prevent her from becoming acquainted with the strange girl she meets in the woods.

Aiken was a writer of fantasy fiction, mystery fiction, and "sequels" to Jane Austen's novels, but was best known as a writer of children's stories.

Kit's calm world is turned upside down when her ex-stepmother thrusts a baby into her arms and Kit must save herself, and the baby, from the crazy, desperate people who are after it.

Michael is a skilled Internet gamer in a world of advanced technology who is called upon when a cyber-terrorist begins to threaten players.

Recovering from a breakdown that followed the sudden death of her young husband, Bart, Kathy Malone journeys to Florence to visit his family and finds herself haunted by memories and misunderstandings.

Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.

Eli and his family have lived in the Compound for six years. The world they knew is gone. Eli's father built the Compound to keep them safe. Now, they can't get out - Eli's father won't let them.

The house next door to Pat Robbins has been empty for years, the darkness within seeming to warn all to stay away. Now new tenants are moving in, but something is not right - something old and secret lurking in the shadows that fresh paint and new furnishings cannot mask or exorcise.

Bobby lives a reckless life smoking, drinking, and stealing cars in Dublin. So his mother moves the family to the country. But Bobby suspects their cottage might not be as quaint as it seems. And spooky details of the history of their little cottage gradually turn Bobby into a detective of night creatures real and imagined.

It's the worst winter in years. One night, running in the dark, Danny is attacked by a strange and terrifying creature. Then he learns about Native American legends of a monster that's haunted the lake for a thousand years. And that every generation, in the coldest winters, kids have disappeared into the night.

The author's treatment of the works of the most subtle of all film-makers analyzes the key elements of suspense, humour and tone across the whole of the director's career.

This volume of criticism presents a variety of new essays on the American thriller, a genre in which 'ordinary' heroes are faced with an enemy set on destroying them or something they treasure.

Traces the evolution of serial drama from the radio adventure serials of the thirties to the daytime-television soap operas and nighttime-television programs of the seventies, examining the ways they have reflected social concerns.

Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, uses a popular literary genre, the novel of mystery and suspense, to explore contemporary social issues and the reality of evil in the lives of ordinary people. This study of her work reveals the serious intent of a popular writer of popular fiction.

Dove states that the purpose of this book is "to develop a theoretical base for a critical approach to the interpretation of the formula story." Specifically, the chief concern of this book will be the criticism/interpretation of the mystery.