Mary Linn Roby

• Jan-1963
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• Jan-1964
• / Mystery
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• Aug-1965
• / Gothic
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Romance Becomes Terror Hoping to find the romance so lacking in her staid, monotonous life, Laura Cassell had saved for years for the cruise to Rio de Janeiro. Then on the eve of sailing, she came to her Boston apartment and found her brother Just...

• Jan-1966
• / Mystery
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On the eve of a cruise Laura Cassell finds her brother lying brutally beaten in her flat. His assailants had been waiting there to kill her, planning to frame him to pay his debt with Laura’s life insurance. On board the ship, Laura is in a trap...

• Jan-1967
• / Mystery
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Murder has been committed and for two unsuspecting women death walks in at their door. An elderly woman and her young companion are trapped with the killer. Not only the deed he had performed set him apart from other people…so the two must watch, p...

• May-1969
• / Gothic
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MATED FOR DEATH Many people suspected Kate Cousins of drowning her husband. Everyone suspected Ian Foster of strangling his wife. Perhaps it was inevitable then that these two should meet at Beven Manor - a house haunted by violent death, ye...

• Jul-1969
• / Historical Romance
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When a rich old lady and a beautiful young girl are caught in a deserted summer house... When a dangerous psychotic youth finds a gun and plans a bizarre evening's entertainment... When horror and suspense mount with the winds of a rising storm...

• Jan-1970
• / Gothic
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To Susan Barton, Lena had been more than a great actress, more than a beloved mentor - she had been almost like a mother to the lovely young girl. But now Lena was dead. Free of the woman they had both loved and despised, the charmed circle of Len...

• Jan-1970
• / Gothic
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THE WIFE…THE EX-WIFE…THE MISTRESS …drawn together by a bizarre kidnapping to a house filled with madness and scented with sudden death. Each of them had a reason to fear for her life. Each of them had a motive for murder. But only one of the...

• Sep-1970
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• Oct-1970
• / Gothic
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An icy fear gripped Anna’s heart…her husband was a murderer! At first, it was like a bad dream -- a tightening web of fear and blackmail. But suddenly the bad dream became a waking nightmare, for a beautiful starlet lay brutally murdered, and ...

• Jan-1971
• / Historical Romance
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The house on the cliff was frightening even to a trained psychiatrist like beautiful Paula Frost. But to the Markhams -- handsome John, who hired Paula to look after his alcoholic wife, his widowed sister, and her thirteen-year-old son -- the house w...

• Oct-1971
• / Historical Romance
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MIDSUMMER NIGHTMARE It had begun as a seaside picnic on a tranquil summer's day. There had been four of them-Nora, Deborah, Joanne, and Warren-barely past childhood, but already stirred by longings they did not understand. Before that day closed,...

• Apr-1972
• / Gothic
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When Corinne reappeared in her life, Margaret knew that she was standing on the brink of catastrophe because of her former friend's witchcraft connections. Then death strikes and Margaret's daughter becomes a defenseless pawn of Corinne's diabolical ...

• May-1972
• / Gothic
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A HOUSE OF SHADOWS -- A HIDDEN LOVE… When Claudia caught her first glimpse of the rambling Victorian house ringed around by towering fir trees, there was no hint of the danger that awaited her. She had come at the desperate invitation of her for...

• Jul-1972
• / Historical Romance
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POWER… GREED… AND LUST! Unleashed, the dark furies of the heart pitted sister against sister and transformed loving brothers into savage strangers. Two families, swept into a maelstrom of violence and murder, driven beyond the bounds of f...

• Jan-1973
• / Gothic
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SINISTER HOUSEHOLD Sean, heir to the Kilgallen fortune, brooding and hostile, his anger ready to flare into violence. JOAN, torn by the guilty secret she dared not speak of. WINIFRED, whimpering child-woman, haunted by the ghost of her faded you...

• Jan-1973
• / Gothic
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A WHIRLPOOL OF EVIL Since her husband’s tragic death the year before, Amanda Harcourt had been living in somber seclusion in her father-in-law’s lonely Victorian house. And now, this stranger, Michael Kyd, a darkly handsome man who bore a dist...

• Mar-1974
• / Gothic
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HER GLITTERING BLACK EYES WERE FIXED ON IRENE. “I WARN YOU NOT TO INTERFERE. YOU WILL LIVE TO REGRET IT!” In the isolated manor house, the Stewart family are gathered like vultures at the bedside of its dying mistress. Irene has come to catalo...

• May-1974
• / Gothic
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A MIST-SHROUDED MANSION AND A NAMELESS FEAR BOUND THEM TOGETHER PAUL-- handsome, enigmatic heir to the Randolph fortune. A haunted man, desperately fleeing a nightmare memory. MIRANDA-- his beautiful, tormented wife. What terrible shock had twi...

• Oct-1974
• / Historical Romance
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City of romance, city of death - Pursued by the memory of a love now lost, beautiful Ann Hever returned to exotic Tunis, determined to blot out the shadows of her unhappy affair with Robert Anderson. But Margot Monteau, a famous actress, had othe...

• Jan-1975
• / Gothic
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With Christina slowly dying I would stay at Chatement because I must, because I had promised to be there until the end. As for the others -- they didn’t really belong here either, but they stayed because of invisible bonds to this great and famo...

• Jan-1976
• / Historical Romance
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Daughter of a British baron and an exquisite Florentine noblewoman. Christobel's life was a simple one - days filled with tutors, horseback riding, needlework, an d troubadours. Her mother's unexpected death shatters her world. Grieving for her mothe...

• 1976
• / Historical Romance
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She married a dream of perfect happiness and woke up to a nightmare of ruthless deceit. From whirlwind courtship, through impetuous elopement, to a passionate honeymoon - it had been a fairytale romance. Then came the accident and Anna, so recently w...

• Jan-1977
• / Historical Romance
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There was nothing to suggest that Montpeller, the vast and beautifully tended estate, was in fact an asylum for the rich. Or that lovely, charming Janice Hilyard suffered from dangerous delusions. Lauren Wilding, Janice’s companion, didn’t know w...

• Jan-1978
• / Gothic
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A Forgotten Life. Alone and grief-stricken after the suicide of her celebrated father, Elizabeth Dalton was shattered until the phone call from biographer and family friend, Graham Waldon. Would she come to England, to Marsh House, and help him pi...

• 1979
• / Traditional Regency
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"Break as many hearts as possible" These were Mrs. Lorimer's precise instructions when she left her fortune to Caroline Woodstalk. The young heiress was to live in Lorimer House in London and fulfill the terms of the will in the fashi...

• Sep-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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PAMELA POMINDER WAS EMBARRASSED! Embarrassed by her mother's obvious courting of the London haut ton to be sure her daughters married "well". Embarrassed by her sister who never seemed to think before getting entangled with some gentleman whose...

• Mar-1980
• / Traditional Regency
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It was all wrong! Jennifer's heart sank as she watched her beautiful schemes go awry. Here she was in Bath, the most fashionable spa in all England, a city of sparkling waters, of promenades and picnics, and endless, radiant balls. But for Jennife...

• Jan-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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The stage was love enough for her -- until she looked into his dark eyes. SHE WAS OPHELIA! Lord Durant watched Hannah Sheffield from the back of the darkened theater as she portrayed Hamlet's broken-hearted love. She thought she was alone as she...

• Mar-1982
• / Historical Romance
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She was a woman of consequence! In America and England, she dominated society and ran the Herrick enterprises. She inspired admiration, imitation, and fear. When love came her way she bent only briefly to passion. Her mission in life was to bri...

• Sep-1996
• / Gothic
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Lovely young Martha Fuller wanted no part of her grandmother's fortune, or Conifers, the vast isolated family mansion on the rocky Maine coast. Yet somehow, inexplicably, she found herself complying with the strange request of the will, the request t...

• Jul-2010
• / Gothic
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From the deserted, menacing streets of Bucharest, to the remote, wind-swept Carpathian mountains, Victoria Holden had only one purpose. To save her younger sister Diane from the same lover who had so thoroughly humiliated Victoria years before. Bu...

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• / Historical Romance
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THE STRANGER HER MOTHER HAD MARRIED looked at Barbara with eyes of cold hatred. He didn't want her in the house, didn't want her questions about her mother's strange illness. Her brother's grasping fiancee regarded her with undisguised hostility. Th...