HCH 1955 | Henry Carter Hull

1) Love for Lydia

Author

Bates, H. E

2) The Governor's daughter

Author

Whitson, Denton

3) Apricot sky

Author

Ferguson, Ruby

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"I'm haunted by an awful dread," said Raine. "It was a wedding Mysie once went to. The bridegroom never turned up and the bride swooned at the altar." "Have you practised swooning?" It's 1948 in the Scottish Highlands, with postwar austerity and rationing in full effect, but Mr and Mrs MacAlvey and their family and friends are too irrepressibly cheerful to let it get them down. There's Raine, newly engaged to the brother of a local farmer, and Cleo,...

4) So rich, so lovely, and so dead: a Scott Jordan story

Author

Masur, Harold Q

5) Murder on the Matterhorn

Author

Carr, Glyn

6) The black iris

Author

Little, Constance

7) Washington whispers murder

Author

Ford, Leslie

8) Speak justly of the dead

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Lorac, E. C. R

9) Golden Admiral

Author

Mason, F. van Wyck

10) Désirée

Author

Selinko, Annemarie

11) Why Waterloo?

Author

Herbert, A. P

12) The doctor disagrees

Author

Seifert, Elizabeth

13) The Boyds of Black River

Author

Edmonds, Walter D

14) I and my true love

Author

MacInnes, Helen

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American diplomat Payton Pleydell and his wife Sylvia are the most respected, brilliant couple in Washington. Theirs seems a perfect marriage but Kate Jerold begins to suspect that her cousin's husband is not as devoted as he seems. Then the unexpected arrival of a Czech official threatens to bring the façade crashing down. Even after six years apart, Sylvia has not forgotten Jan Brovic; during the war they had been deeply, secretly in love. But...