title: Revisiting Mary Higgins Clark: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers)
author:  Linda De Roche 
description: "It is useful to be able to search the full text of all the volumes simultaneously, as well as to search for the common themes, styles, etc., of a variety of popular writers."
zlib_text: # Mary Higgins Clark
  
  Mary Higgins Clark is a phenomenon, certainly, and one who has earned her
  status on the world’s best-seller lists by dint of hard work. In the very best
  sense, she is the novelist-as-Everywoman, and her devoted readers identify not
  only with her imperilled heroines but with the author herself. The romantic
  suspense tradition, after all, is a great one, with roots stretching back to
  the delicious Gothic excesses of Ann Radcliffe and racing forward to the
  modern era as heralded by Daphne du Maurier.
  
  Clark’s books and stories, however, are firmly contemporary. Shunning moats
  and manor houses, she reminds us time and again of the many sorts of courage
  women exemplify in the lives they lead today-as professionals, as wives,
  mothers, stalwart friends. Add sudden death to the mixture, along with
  villainy and betrayal, plus a surprise twist or two, and you have the
  ingredients for another best seller. It may look easy to pull this off,
  keeping fans hooked, turning pages 