Loved itI've read both of them. They are both decent. To Walk the Night is better.
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To walk the night (1937)
Others: Positive To Walk the Night unfolds like a mystery novel. Bark Jones has gone home to visit Dr. Lister, the father of his friend Jerry, and together they hope to lay the mystery that revolves around the deaths of Jerry, and before him Jerry’s mentor astronomer Professor LeNormand. The one key to both men’s deaths is LeNormand’s, and now Jerry’s widow, Selena.
- ISBN:
- 9780345286031
- Length:
- 226 pages
Genres: science fiction
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