Playing Safe - Hardcover
After advertising her acting ability as a "service," Helen Johnson meets with great success until a role comes along that requires her to be scared to death
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As the beautiful, happily married wife of a ranking member of British Intelligence, Helen Johnson has a lovely house, a wonderful garden, a friendly cat and lots of money. But she's bored, and to amuse herself she's put her old acting talents to use by hiring herself out to play the relatives of people in awkward social situations. One thing leads to another, and soon she's in the middle of international espionage and must go undercover in an English psychiatric hospital, posing as mentally disturbed patient Fiona Parkinson. The plot in this seventh novel by the author of There Was a Little Girl is difficult to believe, and the villains are evil to the extent of beating up little old ladies. Furthermore, many of the characters have at least two identities, if not threea burden to even a lucid narrative. Here, the plot is often muddled beyond understanding.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherDoubleday/ Crime Club
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0002319799
- ISBN 13 9780002319799
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages208
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