Egotistical writer and unfaithful husband Tyler Bunnell has disappeared, and his family is rather relieved--until his wife finds his much-needed eyeglasses in a cranny of his writing cabin. Surely he wouldn't have left without them! Soon the state pr...
When it came to snubbing poor relations, wealthy old Aunt Harriet could have written the book--and did. When she finally died, all she left them was her lifelong diary, in fourteen formidable volumes. Grandniece Susan sentenced herself to read every ...
Choose your poison and the murderer had. There was a corpse or two to prove it. But when a bullet, fired by a hand in the crowd, had met its mark, Detective O'Neill was certain this was no "ordinary" madness. It was madness and murder gone wild -- wi...
Dean couldn't help but feel how deseparetly he needed money as he was sitting in Leonard's den facing a safe containing 30,000 worth of bearer bonds. While Leonard ran off for ten minutes, Dean stole the the bonds and easily exchanged them for cash. ...
Edna Monroe was unsophisticated, dull, and incapable of keeping up with her sociable, successful husband Mike. She was in the way--of Mike and the younger, livelier Linda whom he loved. And on Halloween night--while Mike was out of town and Linda was...
Innocence can kill. Even the wide-eyed, openhearted innocence of an eighteen-year-old girl seeking a mother’s love. That was all Phyllis Bingham was looking for when she penetrated into the anti-septic precincts of Franklin House, located in Con...
FIND THE WOMAN is a brilliant performance by that modern master of detection and mystery, Doris Miles Disney. In it, insurance investigator Jeff DiMarco follows the trail of a doctor’s double life to an exciting climax of blackmail, murder and a my...
Old vaudevillian Dan Ferris had a new act: blackmail. He booked himself for a long run at the home of his ex-daughter-in-law, Etta, and threatened to turn the spotlight on a past scandal if she didn't make his stay a sold-out performance. Etta loa...
THE DEAD DON’T SPEAK Adele was loving, generous and sane. Until Howie disappeared. “He’s gone now,” they told her. “Gone for good!” How could she tell them, the living, what they would never believe: That somehow she was being drawn...
Henry liked to think of it as a gentleman's agreement. They provide him with a tidy nest egg; in return the world need never know about the deed. The deed that only Henry had been clever enough to find. After all, $250,000 was a drop in the bucket...
He was the handsomest man she had ever seen... From the moment Diane laid eyes on Roger Gibbon she was completely fascinated - he was charming. When Roger returned her interest, Diane was pleased and flattered. It wouldn't take much encouragement ...
Whenever spoiled, wealthy Julie Graham gets into trouble, she goes back to the family homestead until her own world steadies on its axis. But this last time she discovers that ‘you can’t go home again.’ Her emotionally straight-laced sister, Al...
After filling out a computer dating service card with a fictional name, Sophie's clowning days were about to come to an abrupt end. For one of her suitors was very, very serious. And he would make sure that this was Sophie's last laugh......
It took old Mrs. Meeker $30,000 to realize she was being swindled by the private detective she had hired to trace the grandson of a former lover. Once the truth dawned on her, she was formidable in her quest for justice. As a fraud perpetrated throug...
FOUR SWEET OLD LADIES And one of them was a killer! Mrs. Amundsen, plump, stolid wife of a farmer who spent her life saying “Yes” to her domineering husband. Mrs. Hadley, her sour, unpleasant sister-in-law who had known only two months...
For years the script had always been the same. Act One: find a wealthy old woman in need of companionship. Act Two: have lovely, sympathetic Gretchen insinuate herself into the lonely dowager's personal life and financial affairs. Then call in Jay to...
Little Anne Talbot was snatched from the park while playing hide and seek. Then her family got into the grim game: the kidnapper hid the kid and the Talbot's had to seek for 15 years before a deathbed confession led them to a pretty teenager, also na...
Who would want to persecute a girl like Lucia Ruyter? At the bank her warm friendliness and easy efficiency made her a pleasure to work with; her neighbors all spoke of her with affection, and the men in her life knew her to be a delightful and attra...
Although they never met, Mandy O'Brien and Janet Avery had corresponded for years, but when Mandy finally does pay a visit, she is convinced that the entire Avery clan is plotting to kill Janet's grandmother--and her too...
Wally Howard was prissy and puny, and he knew too well what it was like to be the runt of the litter. It was a dog's life, all right, but Wally was not about to roll over and play dead. Some of the tricks he knew were a bit extraordinary--because...
Political columnist Fergus MacDonald suspects foul play when a congressional candidate and his lovely daughter, Andrea Langdon, begin receiving serious threats from Andrea's ex-lover, the lowly Seymour Boyd...
A Psychopathic Killer… …With as taste for young girls A 13-year-old lay dead -- raped and brutally murdered! The police were hunting a shadowy figure known as “the blue man,” who had been terrorizing the neighborhood. But Maggie Thay...
A Psychopathic Killer… …With as taste for young girls A 13-year-old lay dead -- raped and brutally murdered! The police were hunting a shadowy figure known as “the blue man,” who had been terrorizing the neighborhood. But Maggie Thay...
As the murderer drew near, Hetty had to find the key to a bizarre and grisly secret. Whom could she turn to-when one of them might be her killer? Emily, her golden haired cousin, who was to meet such a horrifying end? Reed, Emily's handsome husb...
Dr. Chandler's body had been found in Moosehead Lake in the Maine Woods. Although the doctor frequently went fishing in that area, none of his gear was with him. Investigation showed he had recently withdrawn a lot of money from his accounts, but app...
COTTAGE WITH A BLOODY SECRET… Gilbert Fowler rented the place for the summer, partly to humor his lissome fiancée, Sandra -- and partly because he needed peace and quiet to finish his thesis. He was warned that a ghost inhabited the cottage ...
Jenny protested that Adelaide would never have killed herself. She remembered her sister, before her marriage, as a vivacious, life-loving girl. Yet Dennis Holland and his family described a depressed, unhappy woman who slipped out one night and hang...
DEATH WITHOUT A VICTIM Frances Hoyt swears she witnessed a murder, but when no body turns up, the case is dropped. Months pass, enough time for the murderer to believe he is safe. Then, after a year, the case is reopened. One man has been found mu...