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Butcher of Dreams : a suspense novel by Williams, Kay, 1933-; Wyman, Eileen is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Lee Fairchild has realized every actor's dream-a theater of her own. The dream is about to turn into a nightmare. Who-or what-lives on the third floor? The theater was an abandoned burlesque house where the homeless lived-until Lee and her staff scrub it out. It doesn't matter, she tells herself, that the theater sits in Hell's Kitchen on the seedy fringes of Times Square, that it's under-budgeted and understaffed and that she (as Administrative Director) will play only one role this first season. It's an Equity theater, offering five plays in repertory. Times Square redevelopment makes the property desirable. With her husband recently dead and her daughter away at college, Lee falls into a passionate affair with a younger man. Bizarre, seemingly unrelated events-beginning with a homeless man found dead on the third floor of the theater-escalate to ritual murder. Qualities that make her a good actress-imagination, empathy-pull her through the looking glass into a nightmare world, to the brink of death. Over all hovers a Mexican mask, stolen from the tomb at Monte Alban, its eyes glittering with secrets of the ancient Aztecs and sacrifice. The characters are drawn from the authors'

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Author
Williams, Kay, 1933-; Wyman, Eileen
Publisher
New York: Calliope Press
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9780964924161
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Thriller, Fiction
Rating
4.3 / 5 (10 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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