title: Search Through the Mist
author: Stevens, Lucile Vernon
description: A Lady Vanishes...
  
  A bowl of half-peeled apples in the middle of the living room was the only sign of something wrong the night Jean Warley disappeared. And at first her stepson Paul and her cousin Lori refused to believe anything was wrong. But time passed with no word from Jean, no clue to where she had gone--willingly or unwillingly. When banker Sam Calder was found shot the same night, anxiety about Jean grew. It didn't seem likely that there was a connection between her disappearance and the murder. Still, her husband Gil had been found guilty of embezzling funds from Sam's bank years ago and jailed. But Gil was dead...or was he? There was a rumor he was not only alive but back in town. The report drew a violent reaction from Paul: his father was dead, he insisted, drowned. Lori wanted to believe him, wanted desperately not to listen when reporter Bernie Gray hinted at what she had already begun to suspect: that Paul knew more about Jean's disappearance and the murder than he was saying...