'Salem's Lot by Stephen King Size:Hardcover: 22.2 x 13.7 x 3.9 cm Michael Crichton's new novel opens

Michael Crichton's new novel opens on the threshold of the twenty-first century

No matter that your taste-whether it's for whodunits or the supernatural or even a touch of science fiction-you'll find what you like in this new book

But for young Cary Ripton on his paper round it won't be a normal day at all

and the never-ending drive to create

the terrible scene raises more questions than it answers

'Salem's Lot by Stephen King Size:Hardcover: 22.2 x 13.7 x 3.9 cm Michael Crichton's new novel opens'Salem's Lot is a small New England town. Like so many others it contains the usual quota of gossips, drunkards, weirdos and respectable folk. Of course there are tales of ghosts and strange happenings, skeletons in closests, people missing and never found but no more than in any other town of its size. Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer, returns to the Lot to write a novel based loosely on his life there as a child, and to exorcise finally the