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An interesting crime and deduction tale set in early 1960's Connecticut. -- Dr Donaldson's pretty young wife, Celia, has died at home. The cause of death: a liver abcess. -- At least, that is the opinion of the two doctors who attended her during...
An unidentified girl is murdered on the beach of a small Connecticut resort town. Her slayer is a man. That much Police Chief Fred C. Fellows and Detective Sergeant Sidney Wilks know from the beginning. And slowly they piece together leads: two o...
She went looking for help- and she found death. She was one woman alone facing the ruthless drug dealers who were ruining the town's young people. She appealed to investigator Simon Kaye for help. But he hadn't been able to prevent her murder. Racked...
Somebody made a killing when Billy died Odds were six-to-one in Billy Cantrell's favor - he was the hottest middleweight to come along in years. Who'd have thought he'd go down in the fifth round...and never get up again? The coroner said it was a he...
Simon Kaye never looked for trouble... But sometimes trouble came looking for him! He was a private investigator, but he wasn't above doing a favor for a friend. Like Doria Rafe - a girl whose parents had run afoul of the local mob. So Simon pu...
No one saw her leave, and no one knows where she went...It's a perfectly typical day for Lowell Mitchell at her perfectly ordinary university in Massachusetts. She goes to class, chats with friends, and retires to her dorm room. Everything is normal ...
BIRDS OF A FEATHER DIE TOGETHER The twenty tourists on the Bird Watchers Society's African safari looked forward to seeing rare and exotic bird life. They didn't expect to become sitting ducks themselves. An aging and hated company president dr...
Sally Anders is dead--raped and beaten to death. A pretty teenager in a nice, quiet town. Too nice; too quiet; too much is hidden. But that quiet is about to explode under the spotlight of the police investigation....
House Above the Sea Angela Whelan, the beautiful wife of an American businessman, was drawn to the stone cottage on the lonely English coast by a force she could not name. That same uncanny power made her insist against her husband's will they rem...
CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES BY 20 VENDORS OF VILLAINYMystery Writers of America is pleased to present this sinister volume of larceny, deception, and murder, brought to you by the very finest purveyors of perfidy. Donald E. Westlake tells a tale of a c...
Soon after a famous explorer returns from two years of captivity in the Amazon to the bosom of his not-so-loving family, he is nearly killed in an automobile accident and then, seemingly, poisoned by his uncle. Corrie Haynes, girl reporter, sets out ...
What do you do when the lunatic who's sworn vengeance against you is released from the mental institution as cured? You know exactly what his vengeance will be: he won't come after you, he'll come after your wife and two little girls. You can plead ...