Quiet Dell

By Jayne Anne Phillips

Categories: History, Literature & Fiction

Quiet Dell is a 2013 novel by Jayne Anne Phillips. Based on a real 1931 case, it follows the murders of a Chicago widow and her children by a con man who met her through a lonely-hearts club, and the journalist who pursues the story in West Virginia.

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• Stephen King: “A brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year.”