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Terror
First Published: 1962 Publisher: Belmont Books Format: Paperback |
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Summary:
Twenty-year-old Jay Thomas dutifully assists her aunt Tracy with the running of her antique shop. One day, Tracy shows her nephew her latest acquisition: a sixteen-inch high, bronze statue of Kali, the Hindu goddess of violence and death. Unbeknownst to Jay is that the statue is a stolen artifact, originating from a Kali temple in the Orient. Its theft triggers a series of brutal strangulation murders—among them, Aunt Tracy—of those associated with the statue. Jay and a police inspector collaborate to unravel whether the killings are merely the work of an opportunistic thief or the resurrection of a thought-dead cult of Kali worshippers who will stop at nothing to see the artifact returned to its rightful home.
Bloch: “I concocted a paperback novel, Kill for Kali, which the publishers retitled Terror. Antiheroes, still comparatively rare at the time I wrote The Scarf, were now quite common; as a switch, this time around my main character was a moral and law-abiding young man. “
Twenty-year-old Jay Thomas dutifully assists her aunt Tracy with the running of her antique shop. One day, Tracy shows her nephew her latest acquisition: a sixteen-inch high, bronze statue of Kali, the Hindu goddess of violence and death. Unbeknownst to Jay is that the statue is a stolen artifact, originating from a Kali temple in the Orient. Its theft triggers a series of brutal strangulation murders—among them, Aunt Tracy—of those associated with the statue. Jay and a police inspector collaborate to unravel whether the killings are merely the work of an opportunistic thief or the resurrection of a thought-dead cult of Kali worshippers who will stop at nothing to see the artifact returned to its rightful home.
Bloch: “I concocted a paperback novel, Kill for Kali, which the publishers retitled Terror. Antiheroes, still comparatively rare at the time I wrote The Scarf, were now quite common; as a switch, this time around my main character was a moral and law-abiding young man. “
Bibliography
US: Belmont Books; pb 1962
Israel: pb, 1963; nfd
Spain: Editorial Molino pb 1965
Italy: 1965; nfd
Germany: Heyne ("Amok"); pb 1968
Greece: Inouches & Delphi 1975; nfd
Germany: Pabel ("Amok"); pb 1979
Israel: pb, 1963; nfd
Spain: Editorial Molino pb 1965
Italy: 1965; nfd
Germany: Heyne ("Amok"); pb 1968
Greece: Inouches & Delphi 1975; nfd
Germany: Pabel ("Amok"); pb 1979