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High crime area : tales of darkness and dread / Joyce Carol Oates.

by Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

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The Mysterious Press, c2014.

Siblings -- Fiction.

Teacher-student relationships -- Fiction.

Authors -- Fiction.

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

Revenge -- Fiction.

Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.

vii, 247 p. ; 22 cm.

The home at Craigmillnar -- High -- Toad-baby -- Demon -- Lorelei -- The rescuer -- The last man of letters -- High crime area.

In the title story "High Crime Area," a white, aspiring professor is convinced she is being followed. No need to panic, she has a handgun stowed away in her purse--just in case. But when she turns to confront her black, male shadow, the situation isn't what she expects. In "The Rescuer," a promising graduate student detours to inner city Trenton, New Jersey to save her brother from a downward spiral. But she soon finds out there may be more to his world than to hers. And in "The Last Man of Letters," the world-renowned author X embarks on a final grand tour of Europe. He has money, fame, but not a whole lot of manners. A little thing like etiquette couldn't bring a man like X down, could it?

Suspense fiction.

Psychological thriller.

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