Face in the Shadows

by Marilyn Ross, W.E.D. Ross (AKA)

Andrea Gibbs is bored. Encouraged by friends, she writes to a computer dating service, and, much to her surprise, is rewarded with a series of warm, gentle letters from "David Barry." Soon, letters are no longer enough. Dinner is arranged. Andrea waits at the restaurant but David never comes. Hurt, curious and deeply in love with a man she has never seen, Andrea begins her search.

Genres: Gothic

298 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

William Edward Daniel Ross, W. E. Daniel "Dan" Ross (born 1912) is a bestselling Canadian novelist from Saint John, New Brunswick who wrote over 300 books in a variety of genres and under a variety of mostly female pseudonyms such as Laura Frances Brooks, Lydia Colby, Rose Dana, Jan Daniels, Olin Ross, Diane Randall, Clarissa Ross, Leslie Ames, Ruth Dorset, Ann Gilmer, Jane Rossiter, Dan Ross, Dana Ross, Marilyn Ross, Dan Roberts, and W.E.D. Ross. As Marilyn Ross he wrote popular Gothic fiction including a series of novels about the vampire Barnabas Collins based on the American TV series Dark Shadows (1966-71).

Reviews

[Stacy · Rating 4 out of 5]

First, I would like to mention that Ross is one of my favorite authors. But I've got to say, what was he thinking when he wrote this? What kind of a woman would drive to another city to find a man that she had exchanged letters with for just a couple of weeks, that she had never even met. He didn't even show up for their date the previous night. Later on, the main character (Andrea) makes some other stupid decisions, even though there are a lot of dangerous things going all around her, directly involving her. Normally I would think that the character was just dumb, but I don't feel that Andrea was.I just believe that the author just didn't think it through very well before putting it on paper. There were just some things about the book that just seemed stupid to me. The story as a whole, was an interesting one, if you can just overlook the obvious flaws. ~~~~~Clean

[Nattie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn't like this book and regret spending my money on it. It's by Marilyn Ross and about computer dating in 1973, so it should have been at least okay, but it's not really about computer dating.

It was extremely farfetched that Andrea would become so interested in the match the computer dating agency found for her, that she would persist in trying to locate him when he didn't show up for their dinner date, and by locate I mean traveling to another city to hunt him down.

The book was just bad all around.