Tonight she had let him hold her hand. Tomorrow night? He went into her room. It was quiet, the bed unmade, the newspapers sprawled on the floor. Kate’s maid was sick, he remembered. Well, he would tidy up the bed, anyway.So he folded the papers an...
Why did someone try to blackjack Dr. Lionel Klinger in the marble lobby of his splendid private home? What was haunting the doctor’s docile new wife, Mary? Who was terrifying the doctor’s small step-children? The children’s real fath...
“Sheer absolute heart-in-throat suspense, comparable to the novels of Charlotte Armstrong … brilliantly sustained by fast pace, shrewd construction.…” -- The New York Times Book Review The town of Slocum was corrupt from top to bottom, ruthl...
Sandy Fleming Didn't Have Any Enemies...Except One. David Bynam. Handsome, successful, he had everything a man could want, until a freak accident left him alone, bitter, and vindictive. He becomes a man who openly admits he wants to kill the man r...
True, Celia Sommerville waited ten days before her wedding to tell her fiance she couldn't marry him. But she never anticipated the cold censure from their colleagues at the university -- which worsened considerably when George's body turned up in a ...
Though reluctant to defend a man accused of rape and murder, criminal attorney Lydia Ness knew it was her shot at the big time. Moreover, she believed Jerry Eldstrom was innocent. Young, earnest and sincere, with an airtight alibi, he seemed like a d...
Marcy Madden had always wanted to be the center of attention. In her fantasies, she was the heroine - rescuing children from mad dogs or from drowning, devoting herself to a sick mother dying of a 'rare, tropical disease.' Then one day she discove...