The first time he killed a man Les Ferron was nervous and scared. But after that it got easier. He didn't even think about it after awhile–everything was automatic.<P> But then Les met Amy Wayne–beautiful, innocent and rich. He couldn't kill her–and he couldn't make love to her either. All he could do was let her drive him crazy– ...
Set in the early part of the 20th century, this fine historical novel by Harold Lamb (most famous for his historical biographies and adventure fiction) tells of a white man in North Africa who is drugged and kidnapped from a bazaar. What follows is a singular adventure… ...
Margaret Annister is slated to die in Nevada City’s gas chamber but she’s not too worried. She’s been given a drug by the police matron that takes away all cares and concerns. Also, she knows that her good friend Yerxa Indergaard is due to appeal directly to the Governor in her behalf. Throw in local attorney Croxson Kalver who knows she’s been set up and you have the makings of a webwork mystery only Harry Stephen Keeler could have penned. ...
This classic mystery story collection assembled 4 tales of Madame Storey: «The Ashcomb Poor Case,» «The Scrap of Lace,» «The Smoke Bandit,» and «In The Round Room.» ...
Former schoolmaster Collin Melrose is found dead, but why is he sitting in the wrong chair? And did Lily Klimpton kill herself after her lover’s death, or did she die at the hands of another? In Found Dead, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson return to unravel two mysterious tales by the devious Lyn McConchie. Local squire’s daughter Miss Bibiana Paget befriends the ailing Collin Melrose, who lives near her family’s estate. Melrose does not have lo ...
When Aggie Mundeen accompanies San Antonio Detective Sam Vanderhoven on a weekend getaway to Lake Placid, she thinks it’s going to be fun in the sun. What could be better than caretaking a friend’s cottage on the Guadalupe River in Central Texas? Never mind that Sam intends to discretely investigate the theft of that friend’s boat…<P> Unfortunately, the weather has plans of its own. Buckets of rain and gusting winds roil the lake, turning ...
Somewhere in the elegance of Beekman Place, the stone refuge of the very rich, she lay naked and sprawled across an heirloom of a bed in the grotesque position of sudden and violent death. <P> She was beautiful Patsy Burton Lonergan, 22- year-old wife, mother—and sole heiress to seven million dollars. <P> She had been bludgeoned to death with a heavy brass.candlestick handsomely inlaid with green glass. The room was a shambles. ...
The town was dark and heavy with doom. Hate, generations old, flowed through it like a malevolent river. Julie knew the force of that hate… and the violence which had issued from it in the past. It could erupt again; she lived in terror.<P> Ben, the stranger, saw Julie and fell in love. A secret voice warned him to stay away, but he did not. They clung together in the darkness; meanwhile, through the midnight shadows of the town a killer ...
