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Where Are the Children? | Characters

The central character of Mary Higgins Clark's first thriller is the heroine Nancy Eldredge, who lives on Cape Cod with her husband, Raynor (Ray), and their children, Mike and Missy. Nancy was born to David and Priscilla Kiernan. Her father was an airline pilot who died of pneumonia when she was a little girl, and her mother, a receptionist in a psychiatrist's office, was killed in an automobile accident while on her way for a visit with Nancy. While a student at a college in San Francisco, Nancy meets and later marries one of her professors, Carl Harmon. The marriage, however, turns out...

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