LOCAL COLOR Abdicating as queen of the Home Repair guides, author Charlotte Kent fled to quaint Pelican Rock to produce a "real" book: the biography of the California town's most famous, and tragic, historical figure, Dr. Stanley Hardwicke. The...
Everything is Perfect Meadbury's streets are clean. The people are Friendly. Crime is virtually nonexistent. Everything will always be perfect. As long as Meadbury lives, its people are safe. For Meadbury is alive. It controls the thoughts and ...
DEADLINES When writer Charlotte Kent began researching her latest self-help book, Tricks for the Sick! at a renowned East Coast medical center, she hadn't planned a chapter on tips to avoid murder. A slimy, unprincipled medical student is dead....
Savvy, compassion and grace under pressure have propelled nurse Edwina Crusoe to the top ranks at Chelsea Memorial Hospital. There's no crisis there she can't cope with, no emergency too extreme. Until a killer checks into the big city hospital, a...
Bad Ending. Struggling each month to fill the pages of her new magazine for writers, Charlotte Kent finds herself up the proverbial creek when she discovers her biggest, and very nearly only, contributor, Wesley Bell, sitting dead in her office swive...
EDWINA CRUSOE, R.N. -- THE BEST MEDICINE FOR MURDER! Edwina Crusoe, top-notch nurse and super-sleuth, is called back to Chelsea Memorial when patients who survive routine operations start ending up in the morgue. With rumors flying of a "death a...
The fourth mystery starring nurse/sleuth Edwina Crusoe. Theresa Whitlock believes a murdered man is trying to kill her, and she turns to Edwina for help. Edwina dismisses the case as insanity--until Theresa is shot dead after leaving her office....
Something is desperately wrong at Chelsea Memorial Hospital. Resident physician Victor Clarke has been shot down in the street only hours before his wife is murdered in their home. The doctor's private nurse is strangled and his respirator is turned ...
When a bright young surgeon empties his gun into his wife and a guard, Dr. William Granger's attorney calls on Edwina Crusoe to probe Granger's past so he can sew up an insanity plea. After piecing together a very disturbing puzzle, Edwina suspects t...
Thirteen timeless classics of mystery -- all featuring unforgettable dog heroes -- are together for the very first time in Canine Crimes II. Culled from the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, these often...