Poldrate Street
| By Garnett Weston | |
| Publisher | Harlequin Romance #48 |
| Release Month | 1950 (US) |
| Harlequin Romance Series # | |
| Preceded by | Registered Nurse |
| Followed by | Weep Not Fair Lady |
- Author: Garnett Weston
- Publisher: Harlequin Romance #48
- Year: 1950
Book Description
InPoledrate Street, which is a backwater of decaying gentility in the outskirts of a California town, you will meet some very odd people - odd only because they are those very ordinary people who live next door to you about whom you know so little until one day you meet them in the tabloids. Dr. Palling seemed an excellent physician, but avarice had made of him a charlatan; his wife, Violet, was a nymphomaniac, Mafia Breene, the undertaker, dreamed of being an expensive artist in his profession; substantial Jacob Sleep coveted the fortune of his ward, red-headed Kitty McKay, "too pretty for her own good"; and poor Sarah Reckon prowled at night stealing flowers from her neighbours' gardens.
From the moment Kitty McKay came to Poldrate Street the doctor and the undertaker began perfecting a plan to satisfy their individual greed and lust. Dr. Palling wasted money. Mafia Breene wanted Kitty McKay. Jacob Sleep had both and he was an old man. You may feel sorry for Sarah Reckon, be shocked by Violet's primitive savagery, and recall before the devastating possibilities of a scientists distorted mind - but once you enter Poldrate Street, where iron hitching posts bear rusting witness to the grandeur of the past, you will not leave until you know everything there is to know about the people who live in those five tall old-fashioned houses on a dead-end street.
