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The breakthrough daphne du maurier5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Johnnie's headmaster telegraphs the couple's hotel to inform them that their son has been taken ill. They learn that the city has been plagued by a series of recent murders. The sisters tell Laura that John unwittingly has the gift of second sight, and that Christine is trying to warn them that they are in danger if they remain in Venice. During a night out, John hears a cry and sees what appears to be a small girl wearing a pixie-hood running along an alley and leaping across some moored canal boats before disappearing into a nearby house, apparently intent on escaping from unseen danger. They encounter middle-aged identical twin sisters, one of whom is blind and claims to have psychic abilities. John and his grief-stricken wife Laura take a holiday in Venice following the death of their daughter, Christine, from meningitis their son, Johnnie, attends a preparatory school in England. In 1973 it was re-published in the UK by Harmondsworth (Penguin) as Don't Look Now, and other stories. ![]() It was first published in Britain by Gollancz (with a cover by Daphne du Maurier's daughter Flavia Tower ), and in America by Doubleday under the title Don't Look Now. Not After Midnight, and other stories is a 1971 collection of five long stories by Daphne du Maurier. ![]()
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