![]() A caustic entertainment, in which March, along with his little fiend, consummates more than one kind of wicked retaliation. Penmark decides to handle the situation herself, and as she fails- the book ends on a note of ironic horror. When she is unable to stop still another murder-committed before her very eyes, Mrs. Penmark's disbelief is finally overcome, along with the reader's, and she turns to case histories- and family records- to discover that she was adopted and that her real mother was a notorious and successful killer, and that her daughter's homicidal impulse is inherited. The Bad Seed by William March, June 1972, Dell Publishing Company edition. ![]() ![]() William March' virulent talent is thoroughly at ease in a quietly horrifying little story in which Christine Penmark, an average, pleasant woman, alone while her husband is on a protracted business trip, discovers that their eight-year old daughter is a budding mass murderesses, with already two successes to her credit and no qualms about either one. The Bad Seed The bestselling novel that inspired Mervyn LeRoys classic horror film about the little girl who can get away with anything-even murder. ![]()
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