The Drugstore

by R C Marlen

Overview

During 1955,Brown vs. Board of Education sent ripples across United States and neighborhoods in St. Louis flooded with change while people’s prejudices surfaced. In "The Drugstore," stories of ordinary people’s strife will pull at your heart, like the fire at Miss Pansy Dimestore and the quest of fourteen-year-old Becky Bartlett whose father runs the corner drugstore. Everyone is caught in a whirlpool of crime when holdups and murder overtake the mom and pop businesses on Park Avenue; they discover that a friend, colleague, or one of Becky’s brothers is leaking information about cash and drugs.
After a brutal holdup, Becky flees from Freddie Payne who had tried to rape her. Soon he starts telephoning her, and she realizes that he always knows her whereabouts. Nothing can stop the demise of the neighborhood, but can Becky outwit Freddie Payne?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011538261
Publisher:	R C Marlen
Publication date:	09/13/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	416 KB

About the Author

RC Marlen (a.k.a.Rosalie Marlen Schele) spent her first forty years in St. Louis, Missouri. While growing up, she lived with the six Marlen siblings and worked in the family drugstore which provided much of the material for her novels Inside the Hatboxes and The Drugstore.

After college, she taught Mathematics, earned a Masters, started a business in Los Gatos, California teaching adults about computers, and then fell in love with Henry Schele who took her to live in Chile and Argentina for fourteen years. In the year 2000 she finished Inside the Hatboxes and three months later became a widow.

Now she lives in beautiful, verdant Oregon. She recently sold her home in San Carlos, Chile - a pueblo six hours south of Santiago. In the future she plans to write about South America.