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When an innocent young woman finds herself knee-deep in gambling - and up to her beautiful neck in debts - there's apt to be trouble.... And trouble is what Janey Blake had plenty of. She had written a pile of bad checks. And she was fighting to keep her husband from the arms of another woman....
But other people had trouble too. Doc Wemitz, for example. He was afraid of something. And apparently he had reason - for one night someone bashed in his...
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Lovely Faith Yardley's betrothal to a man from the north is abruptly followed by murder - and more murder. Transformed by terror, quaint and beautiful Williamsburg, Virginia waits for the killer to strike again, and wonders: This time, will it be Faith Yardley herself?
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In the middle of the night, struggling B actor Glenn Harley gets a hysterical phone call from starlet Nancy Rhymer. She needs Harley to come over to her house immediately. Harley, who always has secretly longed for Nancy Rhymer, jumps out of bed and drives quickly to her home. Once there, he discovers she has knifed a semi-famous actor to death "in self defense" and needs Harley's help to clean things up to protect her from scandal. His affection...
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A beautiful blonde with strange eyes-and stranger schemes... A young redhead in danger of losing the only man she could ever love... A powerful lawyer with something he had to hide, even from himself... Suddenly, all of them were caught up in a series of horrifying murders by a killer who must be living secretly in their midst.
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She was a dangerous female, beautiful, cold-blooded, predatory. The people she lived among were the very nicest sort. Yet, strange to say, it was she who was found dead. And she was only the first victim... She was a dangerous female, beautiful, cold- blooded, predatory. The people she lived among were the very nicest sort. Yet, strange to say, it was she who was found dead. And she was only the first victim...A prime mystery...told with Leslie Ford's...
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This new "Col. Primrose Mystery Novel" might have well been called "The New Mrs. Latham Mystery Novel," because Mrs. Latham plays almost as important a part in it as the Colonel. The scene is Hawaii, and practically all of the action takes place in and around a house high up on the mountainside above Honolulu. It is the story of a black-sheep American, whose family had lived in Hawaii for generations, but who went to Japan and, sometime after Pearl...
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IN THE MANSION OF MURDER...
A self-made millionaire, whose true story was not fit to print...
His beautiful "friend"...
His wife, and her friend, a very suspect psychiatrist...
And a man from the haunted past, with his father's blood on his hands, and every reason in the world to kill and kill again…
10) Burn Forever
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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.
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 moved to...
12) Reno Rendezvous
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Judy was very beautiful, very much in love and very much married to the wrong man. A speedy divorce seemed the only solution to everybody's problems, but little did she imagine that a flying visit to Reno would turn into a terrifying case of murder -- with the shadow of a noose dangerously close to her own lovely neck.
13) Road to Folly
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"Leslie Ford is one of the cleverest and most original of our mystery novelists." -- New York Times
The mansion at Strawberry Hill rose like a stately white magnolia from a lush green hilltop in Carolina. It was a haven of beauty and grace, and Jennifer Reid knew it was the only place she would ever love. Then murder entered Strawberry Hill, and a mad killer waited in the shadows for Jennifer and the man she adored...
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MONEY - D. J. Durbin had the price of a lavish mansion and a beautiful wife. But he couldn't buy back his health... or save his life.
MYSTERY - Cass Crane came back from the Orient, knowing a little too much about some things... and not nearly enough about others.
ROMANCE - Beautiful Courtney Durbin was exciting, dangerous-and a glamorous threat to pretty Molly Crane's love for Cass.
THEN MURDER CAME... to suggest an unholy bond between Courtney...
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WHO IS THE WOMAN IN BLACK? A living ghost, dressed in black, crashes a Washington cocktail party -- and touches off a chain of violence and murder. Who is the Woman in Black? The answer is a matter of life and death for a pretty young matron, a legendary captain of industry, a rich and dazzling hostess -- and for lady sleuth Grace Latham and her friend Col. Primrose. "Mrs Latham works wonders with the clues. A major Ford opus." -- New York Herald...
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Carlotta Rathbone was awfully elegant, dreadfully chic and terribly dead -- as Mr. Pinkerton discovers when he stumbles over her body in a dimly lighted London street. Her friends were bought; her enemies were legion, and paramount among them was Archibald Biddle, a social-climbing novelist who had used Carlotta and then tried to drop her. Biddle is Scotland Yard's prime suspect -- until he panics and begins to tell too much about London's international...
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Hatred in the night... There was little love in the Winthrop clan, not in the mother who ruthlessly dominated it, nor the son who disgraced it, nor the daughter who sullied its name. Certainly it wasn't Cupid who one dark night sent an arrow rippling through a human throat... And now the Winthrops had to desperately seek the murderer in their midst, before that minister of silent death could strike again...
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Slowly I turned to face the hall and the doorway. I waited in an agony of suspense. The great house was as silent as an empty grave, with the pulse of time beating eternally against it; tick, tock; tick, tock; tick, tock...
Gradually I relaxed and let my hand drop, until-I shrieked and turned-and raised my hand dripping with blood. I stared at it like a maniac, and then at the thing it had touched...
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To millions of loyal readers, Myron Kane was a great man, a genius, a truth-teller. But to everyone who knew him personally, Myron Kane was a man with the touch of death, whose razor-edged pen could destroy a reputation, a life, a soul -- and never hesitated to do so. It was no surprise, then, that somebody decided to prove once and for all that a knife, if buried in human flesh, could be far deadlier than a pen...