Sarah Whittaker is a green-eyed beauty with a love for Danny Kaye and
white knights. Lawyer Matthew Hope can see all this clearly, despite the
fact that whenever they meet the two are under constant surveillance by
the mental institution staff. You see, Sarah's crazy...or is she? Sarah
pleads with Matthew to take her case, claiming that her mother
wrongfully had Sarah committed in order to seize her inheritance money.
And while the mother and doctors in question seem shady, almost cloying
in their belief that Sarah is a paranoid schizophrenic, Matthew can't
tell day from night, or Rose Red from Snow White. Meanwhile, the corpse
of a woman about Sarah's age washes ashore in a town nearby. Is there a
connection? Is Sarah Whittaker really pure as snow? Is she the Virgin
Queen she says she is? It's up to Matthew to find out.
In Ed McBain's Snow White and Rose Red, Matthew Hope plunges into the
noir, twisted world of the most complicated of mysteries--the human
mind.