All Through the Night - (Holiday Classics) by Mary Higgins Clark (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Alvirah and Willy are helping prepare for the upcoming Christmas pageant at a thrift shop that doubles as an after-school center for neighborhood kids when the future of the shelter is jeopardized. The couple is soon involved in solving a seven-year-old mystery involving a stolen chalice and an abandoned child.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, celebrates the season with this Christmas classic featuring two of her most beloved characters.</b> <p/>All of Alvirah's deductive powers and Willy's world-class common sense are called upon as the two stumble into a Christmas mystery. A woman abandons her newborn at a Manhattan church. Simultaneously, a thief is absconding with a treasured artifact, a chalice adorned with a star-shaped diamond. To elude police, he grabs the stroller and disappears. Seven years later, the mother returns to the scene and finds Alvirah and Willy helping neighborhood kids prepare for a Christmas pageant at an after-school shelter. Soon the savvy sleuths set out to solve the puzzle of the missing child and chalice--and to unmask scam artists threatening to shut down the shelter.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>With Silent Night, the Queen of Suspense gave her readers the perfect Christmas present. Now Mary Higgins Clark celebrates the season again with a riveting new novel, about which USA Today said, Mary Higgins Clark fans will find ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT a "consume-in-one-sitting Christmas treat".<P>When Alvirah and Willy, two of Clark's most beloved characters, become caught up in a Christmas mystery, all of Alvirah's deductive powers and Willy's world-class common sense are called upon. It begins when an unmarried woman leaves her newborn on the rectory doorstep of a Manhattan church. Meanwhile, a small-time thief and drug peddler is absconding from the church with a treasured artifact, a chalice adorned with a single star-shaped diamond. To elude the police, he grabs the stroller and disappears.<P>Seven years later, the young mother returns to the church where her child was kidnapped while Alvirah and Willy are helping neighborhood kids prepare for a Christmas pageant at an after-school shelter. But the future of the shelter is threatened when the city condemns the site and it is learned that the brownstone to which the shelter was moving has been willed to a smooth-talking couple, tenants in the building. Suspecting that the will is a fake and the tenants con artists, Alvirah sets out to discover the truth. Soon she finds herself in the middle of the puzzle of the missing child and chalice.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A consume-in-one-sitting Christmas treat. -- <i>USA Today</i><br><br>Concocting a satisfying Christmas mystery is as tricky as making a good eggnog: you want a jigger of low-proof danger to mix smoothly with a measure of sweet deliverance. Mary Higgins Clark has whipped up a portable brew. . . . -- <i>The Wall Street Journal</i><br>
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