Inside the Hatboxes

by RC Marlen

Overview

In 1932, a fortuitous crime leads to a mystery that forever binds two families, the Scagliones and Bartletts. Tony Scaglione is a firefighter and John Bartlett a druggist. Their lives entwine through illnesses, unforgettable young love, a haunting rape, and an untimely death. Surprises come with each chapter, building a complex relationship between events, characters, and emotions.
While a mystery of family ancestry unfolds, pending disaster looms over the characters. Only the reader knows that the original crime must resurface from the depths of the past, where the two families have tried to bury it. And it does!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014886116
Publisher:	Sunbird Press
Publication date:	08/19/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	347
File size:	986 KB

About the Author

RC Marlen (a.k.a.Rosalie Marlen Schele) spent her first forty years in St. Louis, Missouri. While growing up, she lived with the six Marlen siblings and worked in the family drugstore which provided much of the material for her novels Inside the Hatboxes and The Drugstore.

After college, she taught Mathematics, earned a Masters, started a business in Los Gatos, California teaching adults about computers, and then fell in love with Henry Schele who took her to live in Chile and Argentina for fourteen years. In the year 2000 she finished Inside the Hatboxes and three months later became a widow.

Now she lives in beautiful, verdant Oregon. She still owns a home in San Carlos, Chile - a pueblo six hours south of Santiago. In the future she plans to write about South America.

Editorial Reviews

This is a real surprise of a book. If one were using the parlance of book reviewers, one could call this a "fast read," in that it is so interesting you won't want to stop reading. But, in fact, it is so well put together that you won't want to read it fast ... you'll want to savor it.
Nice cover, by the way!

Statesman Journal Newspaper - Dan Hays

In her inaugural novel, RC Marlen has given us a wise, engaging and moving book. Her narrative sparkles ... and the characters really are portrayed in vivid and sympathetic ways. And, there is always the surprise or potential for surprise, luring us from one page to the next. This is a wonderful book that is well-worth the read.

Willamette University - William R. Long, Professor of Law

I enjoyed your book "Inside the Hatboxes." Just recently, my husband was without a book to read and I gave it to him. He, too, devoured it barely taking time out for eating and sleeping. He said to be sure to tell you that you had a special gift because it cannot be easy to craft such a book which holds one's attention from beginning to end. I am anxious to read more of your writing.

St. Louis - Donita & John Obermann