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The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress Book

During the investigation in 1968 into the assassination of Robert Kennedy several witnesses recalled seeing a girl in a polka dot dress in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel. She was never found. THE GIRL IN THE POLKA DOT DRESS is a vintage Bainbridge tale of murder and retribution underpinned by Bainbridge's trademark and uniquely dark comedy. Aged twelve Rose was responsible for a terrible act. It was witnessed by Dr Wheeler - who has kept silent for seven years - before his departure for America. In London Rose meets another American Harold who also knows Wheeler and has his own reasons for wanting to find him - his wife had an affair with him and committed suicide when it ended. Harold and Rose travel across America in pursuit of the sinister Dr Wheeler before ending up at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on the night of Robert Kennedy's fateful press conference. Rose is wearing her favourite - polka dot - dress.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    In the rainswept summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold, in her suitcase a polka-dot dress and a one-way ticket. In a country rocked by the assassination of Martin Luther King and a rising groundswell of violence, they are to join forces in search of the charismatic and elusive Dr Wheeler - oracle, guru and redeemer - whom Rose credits with rescuing her from a terrible childhood, and against whom Harold nurses a silent grudge. As they trail their quarry, zigzagging through America in a camper van, the odd couple - Rose, damaged child of grey postwar Britain, and nervous, obsessive, driven Harold - encounter a ragged counter-cultural army of Wheeler's acolytes, eddying among dangerous currents of obscure dissent and rage. But somewhere in the wide American darkness, Dr Wheeler is waiting.

  • Blackwell

    * The new and last Beryl Bainbridge is a double murder mystery and a bittersweet masterpiece of the kind with which she has made her reputation In the rainswept summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town to meet a man...

  • 0316728489
  • 9780316728485
  • Beryl Bainbridge
  • 26 May 2011
  • Little, Brown & Company
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 208
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