Dolores Claiborne

Stephen King. Signet Book, $7.99 (384pp) ISBN 978-0-451-17709-4

King's portrait of a Maine housekeeper accused of her employer's murder--a nine-week PW bestseller--shows him to be a magnificent storyteller. (Dec.)

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