With Silent Night, Mary Higgms

Clark, America s own Queen of

Suspense, gave her readers their

t Christmas present ever.

Now, with All Through the Night, she once again

celebrates the Christmas season with a tale ot

suspense that will keep readers turning the pages--

all through the night.

At the center of the novel are two of Mary

Higgins Clark s most beloved characters, Alvirah,

the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and her

husband, Willy, both of them caught up in a

Christmas mystery that calls on all of Alvirah s

deductive powers, as well as Willy s world-class

common sense.

The story begins when a young unmarried

woman leaves hcr newborn child on the rector1,,

doorstep at a church on the Upper West Side of

Manhattan. At the same moment, inside the church,

a young man is stealing a treasured artifact, a chalice

adorned with a single star-shaped diamond. Both

the infant and the chalice disappear.