Penelope Now: A Novel

by John Crosby

When her husband disappears, Jessie achieves success in agribusiness, becomes the owner of a ski resort and a congressional candidate, and finally pursues the mysterious captors who have abducted her husband

258 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1981

About the author

John Crosby (May 18, 1912, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - September 7, 1991, Esmont, Virginia) was a newspaper columnist, radio-television critic, novelist and TV host. During the 1950s, he was generally regarded as the leading critic of television. From 1965 to 1975 he was a columnist for the British weekly, The Observer. He married Mary B. Wolferth in 1946, and they divorced in 1959. His second wife, the former Katharine J. B. Wood, was a former fashion editor of Edinburgh's The Scotsman. In 1977, he moved to a farm outside Esmont, Virginia, and turned to writing suspense novels, including Men in Arms (1983). (source: Wikipedia)