Evelyn Berckman

• 1954
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A HUNT FOR TREASURE OR A FLIGHT FROM HER OWN HEART? Lovely Keith Elgin had some to The Castle in search of buried treasure. And she was sure that she alone would unearth the stolen art hoard--the Rembrandt painting, the Cellini Cup, and all the re...

• 1955
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Would he ever see the ardent woman beneath her shy exterior? -- At her very first glimpse of Ralph Markham, Ann found herself excited by his vibrant masculinity. But Ralph was desired by another woman who would stop at nothing to win him-an unscrup...

• Jan-1956
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A search for a legendary gen uncovers a terrifying secret from the past, with deadly links to the present… It is the dream… of every archeologist to discover something, to unearth some long-lost jewel that will set the literate of two contine...

• 1956
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Love Gone Astray Martha Haven was young, beautiful and very much engaged to be wed. She had no thought of loving anyone but Bill. Then she met Trevor Dermott, a handsome, mysterious, sometime employee of the museum where Martha worked. He was al...

• 1957
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DANA BRITTON COULD BARELY REMEMBER HER GRANDFATHER, But all her life she had felt the influence of his warped and evil nature. It was her dead grandfather, with his bitter, unfair will, who had turned her mother half-mad with hatred against the ...

• 1957
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WAS LOVE OR TERROR THE CAPTAIN ON THIS VOYAGE? Lovely young Denny Gilbert boarded the Queen Alexandra hoping for a romantic journey to the shores of England. And her wishes were soon answered when she met Derek Pearse, the tall, handsome Englishm...

• 1958
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Seven Years ago, Lieutenant Vance Guilfoy arrived from Korea the evening before he was expected and beat his wife to death because, it was assumed, he found her with another man. But who the man was had never been discovered, nor what became of Va...

• 1959
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IN THE CASTLE OF GILLES DE RAIS “If you’d like to read a real hair-raiser, done just about as well as anyone alive can do this type of thing, try LAMENT FOR FOUR BRIDES… “This one, set in France, had a genuine horror connected with it a...

• 1962
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This is the story of Angela Kelso, the “Angie” whose beauty and cajoling charm had enabled her to dance away from every responsibility. But there was one nagging curiosity that Angie could not elude. She knew that the parents with whom she lived ...

• 1964
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Miss Armina Clere never entered that little room on the first floor of the club without coveting it for herself. Going home at midnight was becoming more and more of a strain. Yet she knew that Phyllis Dalton, highly though she valued Armina's servic...

• 1964
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• 1966
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MURDER MOST COOL Fawsher was undersized, ugly and timid. Braddock was big, attractive and powerful. Yet one way they were alike: They were both inextricably bound to women they despised. The plan, of course, was Braddock’s. Practical, foolpro...

• 1967
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Original title: A Hidden Malice...

• 1967
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Lovely Davina Milne refused to stay away from Starvelings because of its sinister reputation. Village talk about the evil Lord Stanyon and his reclusive wife could not keep her from the youthful heir of the manor who so clearly and painfully needed h...

• 1968
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• 1969
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Menage of Love Nell Harriot, former Hollywood starlet, was still a ravishingly beautiful woman with a full life yet to live and a passionate longing for someone to live it with. And then she met Richard Thorne, a handsome, struggling young playwr...

• 1970
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The Hovering Darkness.. WITHIN DANK WALLS Escape from an unhappy love affair had brought Meriel to France to join the Nebrunnet household, where animated dolls - re-creations of famous French figures - move at the touch of a finger. During her...

• 1971
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Duchess in disguise. Only a short while before, Sybilla-Marie was the toast of Europe, a ravishing beauty whose golden hair, delicate skin and perfect body bewitched kings and inspired poets. Now the young Duchess was a hunted fugitive in her own...

• 1971
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The phone call could not have come at a more inconvenient and inopportune moment. With imbecile mechanical insistence it shrilled and shrilled till it brought Mrs. Milland erupting from the kitchen with flushed cheeks and an air of arrested momentum ...

• 1972
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The words shattered on her ear with incomprehensible distinctness, honed to a sharper edge by the bare walls. Startled, her hands arrested, she raised her head and stared first with astonishment, then with horror at the door -- sagging open by no mor...

• 1973
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There are those among us who are endowed with the gift - not yet understood - of contact in some degree with powers beyond the physical world. Stylish Lorna Teasdale's awareness of possessing this gift pervaded her life, yet she consciously suppresse...

• 1973
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The approach of the first interview reduced Dilys Trayne to a far worse state than she had anticipated more and more she shrank from confrontation with the persons involved. Merely the thought of their sharp variations of nature and temperament broug...

• 1975
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Wickedness smoldered unseen in the elegant interiors of the mansion. The world-famous archaeologist, now in her 80's. was acting strangely. Her lawyer wanted her committed and Jacintha, her paid companion, blinded by infatuation for her handsome and ...

• 1976
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THE END... The great lady was dead. The battle for the estate was on. Just out of reach was a mysterious something of impossible value, guarded by a beautiful, cunning man with a singular hunger--and a priceless secret. Ahead lay an alluring trap...

• 1976
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Also published as: The Blessed Plot “Des Roches, I charge you…with this. I charge you. When the Sister Maria Virgilia dies, warn…warn the Abbess to inform you…at once!... “Your Grace,” the bishop murmured consentingly, wonder what ...

• 1977
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THE END... The great lady was dead. The battle for the estate was on. Just out of reach was a mysterious something of impossible value, guarded by a beautiful, cunning man with a singular hunger--and a priceless secret. Ahead lay an alluring trap...

• Feb-2005
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Also published as: The Crown Estate “Des Roches, I charge you…with this. I charge you. When the Sister Maria Virgilia dies, warn…warn the Abbess to inform you…at once!... “Your Grace,” the bishop murmured consentingly, wonder what ...