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A Little Less Than Kind Kindle Edition

by Charlotte Armstrong (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
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After his father’s sudden death, a college student seeks revenge
Ladd Cunningham never felt comfortable in his father’s office. After high school he went to Stanford University rather than enter the family business, and he planned never to return. But then his father became ill, dying a slow, painful death, and Ladd was forced to come back. Ladd’s new stepfather David Crown presses him, trying to learn if Ladd plans to finish college or take the reins at Cunningham Company. Ladd says nothing, and Crown gives him a box of his father’s effects. Inside the dead man’s planner, Ladd finds a note implicating Crown in his father’s death. Murder is too good for a criminal. Ladd wants vengeance—slow, calculated, and irreversible.
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    194 pages
  2. Language
    English
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    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publisher
    MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
  5. Publication date
    February 21, 2012
  6. File size
    1386 KB
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“The story has all the compulsive fascination of a ticking bomb.” —The New York Times “A smasheroo . . . under no circumstances to be missed. Matchless!” —The Boston Globe “Four stars! Intense and penetrating.” —Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine

About the Author

Edgar Award–winning Charlotte Armstrong (1905–1969) was one of the finest American authors of classic mystery and suspense. The daughter of an inventor, Armstrong was born in Vulcan, Michigan, and attended Barnard College, in New York City. After college she worked at the New York Times and the magazine Breath of the Avenue, before marrying and turning to literature in 1928. For a decade she wrote plays and poetry, with work produced on Broadway and published in the New Yorker. In the early 1940s, she began writing suspense. Success came quickly. Her first novel, Lay On, MacDuff! (1942) was well received, spawning a three-book series. Over the next two decades, she wrote more than two dozen novels, winning critical acclaim and a dedicated fan base. The Unsuspected (1945) and Mischief (1950) were both made into films, and A Dram of Poison (1956) won the Edgar Award for best novel. She died in California in 1969.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00729PUNE
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ MysteriousPress.com/Open Road; 1st edition (February 21, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 21, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1386 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 194 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

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3.7 out of 5 stars
3.7 out of 5
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Karley
5.0 out of 5 stars ... a fan of Charlotte Armstrong's mysteries because sometimes I enjoy reading books written in her day
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2015
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I am a fan of Charlotte Armstrong's mysteries because sometimes I enjoy reading books written in her day. They are good, clean fun. It is kind of like watching an old movie, nostalgic in a sense. I see a correlation between this story and Stephen King's book, Misery. I thought this was intriguing and found this to be a suspenseful piece of work.

Many thanks go out to Amazon for locating this good read for its customers.
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Customer Cathy
4.0 out of 5 stars Sad
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2019
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This is a story about a young man disturbed in his mind and who is convinced his stepfather killed his father. He is determined to get rid of his stepfather and get his father’s business back. The young man’s mother wanted to keep the family together and didn’t like the fighting between the men. The young man caused trouble in the neighborhood and the stepfather decided to treat him like a grownup to see if that would help. This is a serious story that deals with mental health.
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Evelyn
5.0 out of 5 stars I love her books - not enough of them
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2014
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Charlotte Armstrong is one of my favorite suspense writers. Check out the other titles. She always has interesting characters who are caught up in a thrilling dilemma or adventure!
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Jeff Baldwin
5.0 out of 5 stars Hamlet Retold
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2008
This book can be read at two levels. For someone who never heard of Shakespeare it is s good 20th Century yarn. Those familiar with Hamlet will recognize the Danish Prince, Ophelia, Gertrude, Claudius, Polonius,Laertes, Horatio and most of the other characters from the greatest tragedy ever written who are wonderfully reproduced under of course different names. Charlotte Armstrong the great mystery and suspense write was obviously also a Shakespearean scholar. This is a wonderful read.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Needs Editing
Reviewed in Australia on June 26, 2021
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This book is full of distracting typos. How could so many get through? In any case, prepare for a headache.
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Joanne E. Redwood
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on November 5, 2015
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thanks!
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