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Lädt ... The Stone Maiden (1980)von Velda Johnston
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The Stone Maiden Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars The Stone Maiden by Velda Johnston 3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 · rating details · 33 ratings · 3 reviews The advertisement, complete with a box number, appeared in New York newspapers: "Will anyone having information about an infant abandoned in Manhattan twenty-eight years ago please communicate?"-- Katherine Derwith had placed the advertisement. In love with a very proper lawyer, she had refused to marry him until she solved the mystery of her parentage. Somehow she had to find the answers to questions that had haunted her for years; Who had left her, a young baby, in a shadowy corner of a Hudson River warehouse? Why had she been abandoned? Among those who answered her advertisement was Carl Dietrich, a television newsman. Although he disclaimed any knowledge of her origins, he offered to help her in her search. Katherine, however, had an uneasy feeling that he was not dealing straightforwardly with her. Her instinct was correct. He had his own reasons for not wanting her to learn who her parents were - reasons that involved a secret so sinister that it could mean death to anyone who stumbled on the Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Eventually, Katherine discovers her father was an Italian peasant boy who witnessed a war crime from which he fled to New York but the Nazis followed him so he hid in Colorado until years later when his appearance had changed enough for him to return to New York to secretly watch his daughter grow up.
Carl Dietrich, the young man who is helping her also has a secret. His father had committed the war crime and now he is trying to keep his young daughter from finding out her grandfather had been a very evil SS officer.
After some violence in New York, the story's denouement takes place in the mountains of northern Italy. (