In this Golden Age mystery by the author of Skeleton Key, murder plunges a Berkeley husband and wife into the secret world of a cult. It’s 1949, and with the War well and truly in the past, Americans are relaxing into the warm bath of suburbia. Eve...
In this Golden Age mystery, a bored woman looking for adventure gets entangled in a dangerous plot when she finds a stranger in her apartment. It’s 1941, and San Francisco is pulsing with excitement -- with hot jazz, ice-cold cocktails, and the eve...
Georgine Wyeth is a young widow keeping house for herself and her young daughter, and paying the rent by typing for a local academic, a scientific gentleman. Working late one night (there's a war on, you know), she gets caught in a blackout, only to ...
In "Skeleton Key," readers were introduced to Georgine Wyeth, a widowed young mother in California who stumbled across a body and walked -- she emphatically did not fall -- into the arms of Todd McKinnon, a pulp novelist living in the community where...
The War is over, but only just, and San Francisco is still crammed with military uniforms. Of course, being San Francisco, it’s also crammed with Bohemians (in a few years, they’ll be known as Beatniks). Noel Bruce straddles both camps: By day sh...