Selección Terror: Un dulce hogar en el infierno

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"Un dulce hogar en el infierno" (A Sweet Home in Hell), by Silver Kane, is a mystery-thriller set in contemporary Washington D.C. The story concerns Jess, a young newspaper reporter summoned to cover a society cocktail at the mansion of Marlen Greschen, a German woman who married the late American wartime intelligence operative. At 6:15 PM, a woman plummets from an upper window, apparently a suicide. Investigating further, Jess discovers the victim was Alice, a sixty-year-old Polish writer and art critic. However, a police officer's cryptic observation—that she "died of fear"—troubles him. Marlen, revealed to be Greschen's widow (whom he married after finding her in 1945 Berlin ruins), maintains the death was suicide despite the woman's inexplicable terror. As Jess explores the mansion's upper floor, he observes peculiar enlarged photographs of a man's face lining the walls, suggesting deeper mysteries beneath the tragedy's surface.