The Trouble in Thor — Charlotte Armstrong

THE TROUBLE IN THOR is one of Charlotte Armstrong's most suspenseful novels. Set in a remote Michigan mining town, it strips bare, layer by layer, the innermost souls of a group of fascinating people, enclosed in the secretive, rigid social structure of their small community.

Many truths, deceptions, hidden dramas, and strengths in the climatic hours when every muscle, mind and nerve in town is centered on the effort to dig a group of trapped men out of a cave-in…