Death Wears a Beauty Mask and Other Stories

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell, Robert Petkoff

A one-of-a-kind mystery collection that showcases the immense storytelling talent #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark has honed over her tremendous career—including a bone-chilling, previously unpublished short story forty years in the making.

In 1974, master storyteller Mary Higgins Clark began writing a novella inspired by the dark side of the New York City fashion world. She then put the unfinished manuscript aside to write Where Are the Children?, the novel that would launch her career. Forty years later, Clark returned to that novella and wrote its ending. Now—for the first time ever—Death Wears a Beauty Mask is available for readers along with a stunning array of short fiction that spans her remarkable career.

From Clark’s first-ever published story (1956’s “Stowaway”), to classic tales featuring some of her most memorable characters, Death Wears A Beauty Mask And Other Stories is a jewel of a collection brimming over with the chills and heart-pounding drama we’ve come to expect from the Queen of Suspense. Death Wears A Beauty Mask And Other Stories is a spine-tingling read and a special glimpse into the evolution of a world-class writing career.

Loved the stories

Love all of them, especially the last one, it was perfect, too funny as I am a cat lover and he got his just reward.

Jean

Love the fact that there is no cursing. Listened to it multiple times. Very good book.

A fun collection

This is an odd collection gathering some very different stories from across Mary Higgins Clark's career and life. Neither the definitive collection of her short stories or her most critically acclaimed. They don't match a theme. Still, I legitimately enjoyed each of these stories and several of them had wonderful tension and character work. Death Wears a Beauty Mask is essentially a novella. It is worth the price of admission for the entire audio book. It is a bit dated and clearly set in the 1970's and 1980's New York City but an interesting and tense suspense mystery. The other short stories were really well done over all and interesting. Stowaway is one of her first published works and it is a good tale of two people matching mental wits. The Alvira and Willy short story was a wonderful reintroduction of the old pair. The Tell Tale Purr is the most comedic and a strange story and bit of character work.

If you enjoy Mary Higgins Clark for how she writes, her character work, and the way she masters tension you'll find this a good collection.

Very good mystery!

Where does Death Wears a Beauty Mask and Other Stories rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Right at the top of the list. It is a very good mystery.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Death Wears a Beauty Mask and Other Stories?

Loved the whole book.

What about Jan Maxwell and Robert Petkoff ’s performance did you like?

Great job.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

No.

Short, so so

This book was very short. The stories were good, but they were not what I was expecting. Not something I would see reading or listening to again sadly