On her latest Forgotten Classics podcast my friend Julie Davis has an excerpt from a novel by Mary Stewart called The Moon-spinners. Young, beautiful and adventurous, Nicola Ferris loves her life as a secretary at the British Embassy on the lush island of Crete. Then, on her day off, she links up with two hiking companions who have inadvertently stumbled upon a scene of blood vengeance. · The Moon-Spinners by Mary Stewart ~ This edition: Hodder, Paperback. pages. My rating: 9/10 I don't know what it is - perhaps the snowy weather and the early dark evenings - but this book completely hit the spot with me a few nights ago, following through to the next day as I surreptitiously Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. In this bestselling novel, first published in and made into a successful movie starring Hayley Mills the following year, Mary Stewart, in her magical way, evokes Crete as she has Delphi, Provence, Northumberland, and the Hebrides in her other www.doorway.ru by: 1.
Mary Stewart Booklist Mary Stewart Message Board. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of The Moonspinners; A young British woman, vacationing on a Greek island, stumbles upon a mystery. She helps a man who has been wounded as he searches for his kidnapped brother. Mary Stewart Queen of Suspense: Airs Above the Ground, The Moon-Spinners, The Ivy Tree, Nine Coaches Waiting (Boxed Set) Mary Stewart Published by Fawcett Crest, Mary Stewart is a brilliant author. I've read the Moonspinners several times, and I'm always hooked from the very first line: "It was the egret, flying out of the lemon-grove, that started it.".
The Moon-Spinners is a American Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Hayley Mills in a story about a jewel theft on the island of Crete. The film was based upon a suspense novel by Mary Stewart and was directed by James Neilson. The Moon-Spinners was Mills' fifth of six films for Disney, and featured Pola Negri's last big-screen appearance. In this bestselling novel, first published in and made into a successful movie starring Hayley Mills the following year, Mary Stewart, in her magical way, evokes Crete as she has Delphi, Provence, Northumberland, and the Hebrides in her other books. Mary Stewart has combined mystery, suspense, and romance in this novel set in Greece. Nicola, a secretary at the British Embassy at Athens, is meeting her cousin for a holiday in a small village in Crete. As she is exploring the beautiful countryside on her way, she comes upon a man and his injured friend.
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