All through the night / Mary Higgins Clark.

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"A desperate mother.
Her missing child.
A stolen chalice."

With "Silent Night," Mary Higgins Clark, America's own Queen of Suspense, gave her readers their best Christmas present ever.

Now, with "All Through the Night," she once again celebrates the Christmas season with a tale of suspense that will keep readers turning the pages -- all through the night.

At the center of the novel are two of Mary Higgins Clark's most beloved characters, Alvirah, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and her husband, Willy, both of them caught up in a Christmas mystery that calls on all of Alvirah's deductive powers, as well as Willy's world-class common sense.

The story begins when a young unmarried woman leaves her newborn child on the rectory doorstep at a church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. At the same moment, inside the church, a young man is stealing a treasured artifact, a chalice adorned with a single star-shaped diamond. Both the infant and the chalice disappear.

Seven years later, a few weeks before Christmas, Alvirah and Willy are busy helping Willy's sister Cordelia, a nun who runs a thrift shop that