Deliver Me From Eva
Series: no
Publisher: Murray & Gee
Published: 1946
Place of publication: Murray & Gee, Hollywood
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 237
Copyright date: 1946
Table of contents: title: Mark Allard is a young lawyer who's found blissful happiness (or so he thinks!) in his marriage with the seductive Eva. He's a little nonplused, however, when Eva announces on their honeymoon that they'll be living at Thalamus, her father's Pasadena estate. After Mark discovers Eva has some unique talents he had no idea she possessed--she's a virtuoso pianist and knows a Hell of a lot about art and literature--the two head out to that estate.; title: Thalamus turns out to be an odd sort of place, and its inhabitants even odder. Those inhabitants include Eva's muscle-bound brother Osman, a demented maid named Insa and the mysterious seductress Margot. All are presided over by Dr. Craner, a legless and earless dwarf who has found that by manipulating the bones of peoples’ spines he can untap all manner of latent human potential (which explains the inexplicable genius displayed by Eva). Before long Mark is having to contend with a weird "cycle" experienced by Eva during which she leaves the Earthly plain, and an unholy brain experiment carried out by Dr. Craner, whose subject just happens to be Mark.