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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>To Florence Hackett and her daughters Elinor and Louisa, Richard Baurie, a handsome young bookstore clerk and aspiring poet, seems a little odd but harmless enough. With his amusing conversation and his eager-to-please attitude, Richard works his way into the Hacketts' confidence until he is almost one of the family. When he suggests they rent Wisteria Cottage, a charming seaside residence, it seems to promise a summer of pleasant companionship and fun. What the Hacketts don't know is that Richard is a deeply troubled individual, recently released from a mental institution, and that their relaxing summer holiday will soon turn into a terrifying nightmare....</p><p>A brilliant psychological examination of criminal insanity, Robert M. Coates's <em>Wisteria Cottage</em> (1948) earned rave reviews on its initial publication and was adapted for the 1958 film noir <em>Edge of Fury</em>. As Mathilde Roza writes in the introduction to this new edition, "the novel has lost nothing of its remarkable power of taking the reader into a disturbed man's world."</p><p>"A brilliant tour de force."--<em>The New York Times Book Review</em></p><p>"Top peaks of terror . . . a grade-A psycho-thriller!"⁠--<em>Saturday Review</em></p><p>"As direct and frightening as the uncoiling of a serpent."⁠--<em>Commonweal</em></p>

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