The Bad Seed
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Published: June 1972
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780440903857
First sentence: LATER THAT SUMMER, when Mrs. Penmark looked back and remembered, when she was caught up in despair so deep that she knew there was no way out, no solution whatever for the circumstances that encompassed her, it seemed to her that June seventh, the day of the Fern Grammar School picnic, was the day of her last happiness, for never since then had she known contentment or felt peace.