Wicked Stepmother

Wicked Stepmother

Seducing a proper Bostonian was easy. Making him die of a heart attack a week after the wedding was hardly any trouble at all. Now she has money, social status, everything she has cunningly schemed to get since she was a poor little girl. Everything except the Brookline mansion and the multi-million dollar trust fund left to the three children. <br /><br />But what wicked stepmother couldn't get rid of three children? <br /><br />Jonathan, too smart for his own good and suspicious about his father's death, has to be the first to go. Then there's pretty, spoiled Verity, hooked on cocaine and perpetually drunk - who'd ask any questions if she died suddenly? And clever Cassandra, just out of college and beginning a career as a literary editor, will simply have to get over being dead. <i>Wicked Stepmother</i> (1983) is the second of the camp classics written by Michael McDowell (co-author of <i>Beetlejuice</i> and <i>The Nightmare Before Christmas</i>) in collaboration with Dennis Schuetz. Five of McDowell's classic horror novels are also available from Valancourt.