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In her writing nook on Erskine Lake, Gloria Murphy can draw inspiration from the mountain lake view, glittering on a sunlit spring day like a fabulous movie location.
But come sundown tonight, her attention will be riveted by another landscape, one with ominous overtones, straight from her own imagination.
CBS has turned another of Murphy's suspense novels into a made- for-TV movie, "Down Will Come Baby." It will air at 9 p.m.
The network is promoting the movie as a "new, unpredictable, suspense thriller" starring Meredith Baxter and Tom Amandes as the parents of a 12-year-old girl (Evan Rachel Wood) haunted by the drowning death of a friend.
The grieving family is befriended by a neighborly but ultimately terrifying stranger (Diana Scarwid).
"Then the real nightmare begins," Murphy said relaxing at home. It's here, at a computer in the window-lined den, that she composes her tales of terror. And with a story teller's flair for suspense, she declined to reveal the rest of tonight's plot.
The novel, written in Ringwood, was set in New England, but a TV script writer switched the locale to Arizona. That doesn't bother Murphy, who has scanned the script and found the...