Miriam Lynch

• Jan-1956
• / Mystery
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Angela Keith, the society editor of the Adamstown Leader, had been plagued all day long by lost engagement photographs, cancelled weddings, and similar cosmic catastrophies. So it was almost a relief that her noon assignment should be an uneventful o...

• Jan-1962
• / Romantic Suspense
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A long-ago summer came back with that phone call from Floncy, Florence Gilmore had vanished fifteen years ago, the second summer Janet’s mother had worked as housekeeper for the actress, Evelyn Gilmore… And yet it had been Floncy -- the husky, vi...

• Jan-1964
• / Romantic Suspense
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Joan Leighton lived in a rooming house on Boston's Beacon Hill, and she worked for the law firm of Weldon, Davenport and Weldon. One rainy November night, when she came home from work, a man was waiting for her in the entryway. Round, elderly,...

• Jan-1966
• / Romantic Suspense
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Jessica had been invited by Stan Gardiner to spend the week-end at Stoneledge, the Gardiner estate, and since she would arrive at night, and might have difficulty in locating the house, Stan suggested that she spend the night at an inn in a nearby to...

• Jul-1972
• / Gothic
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He was a writer… Charles Lawrence was a writer of crime books. He was about to begin the story of Hallie Parker, the New England spinster whose home, Shadowlawn, was the site of a bizarre multiple murder in the 1890's. Ellen Barclay, just...

• Jan-1973
• / Gothic
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Had she discovered the place of eternal youth - or a hell on earth? THE HOUSE OF SATAN Mirror House was a "beauty farm" that promised to restore youthful appearance. But when twenty-three-year-old Althea Brayton went there in search of her old...

• 1973
• / Gothic
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When young and lovely Jill Traynor came to Beale House, she found the old mansion far different from the place she remembered as a child. Her kindly old aunt was dead, and not by natural causes. Jill was the new mistress of Beale House - the new vi...

• Oct-1975
• / Gothic
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Judith Deveraux had reasons for not wanting to return to Roger Creighton's strange mansion. Eight years before a bizarre theater game had resulted in an innocent man's death. Now, for some reason, all the players had come back...back to take their pa...

• Oct-1975
• / Historical Romance
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THE YEAR WAS 1775, THE PLACE WAS BOSTON and the world was changing as quickly and capriciously as a summer day takes on the chill of autumn. Yet, for Alida Howard, the politics and revolutionary fever that threatened to boil over was no concern of he...

• Jul-1976
• / Historical Romance
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Lorena Talborne had crossed the ocean in 1769 to marry a man she had never seen and to live in a land she did not know. She came to Boston from England, holding fast to the promise of a secure life in the new world, but instead she found herself caug...

• Dec-1977
• / Gothic
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Rosalie was a stranger to the house...a stranger to the troubled people who lived in the decaying mansion called Moontide. Why should anyone in that big ugly place want her out of the way? What had she done that she should be marked for death? She wa...

• Jan-1979
• / General Fiction
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LAST MILL AND TESTAMENT. For free lance artist Carol Gates, it began as another money-making assignment. She would illustrate a book of true crime stories written by literary Henry Marston, who lived in a peaceful old mill in Vermont. Not long after ...

• Mar-1980
• / Traditional Regency
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Miss Harriet Bannestock had suffered the most dreaded of fates for a young woman on the marriage market--she had not been taken. She had, however, secretly developed an affection for Julian Wickstead, someone she felt was far above her reach. Harr...

• Oct-1980
• / Traditional Regency
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"GUY WESTCOTT? WHY, HE HAS HAD MORE HANDKERCHIEFS THROWN AT HIM THAN CAN BE COUNTED. HE MUST BE THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER MAN IN LONDON!" Elizabeth Dasey, whose aristocratic bearing and loveliness belied her humble position as governess to Guy...

• Aug-1981
• / Gothic
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BOSTON, 1887 Emily had long cherished the hope of meeting her mother's friend Amanda and of residing with the Parkers of Beacon Hill as "one of the family." But Emily's first impression of the balconied mansion with its fancy grill...

• Nov-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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The glittering world of London's ton lived to the fullest heights of excitement. Lady Emily Mardenvail--a beautiful heiress, bored and mischievous, confined to a dull country life. Emily's only hope of amusement is to convince her cousin Gracia to...

• Sep-1982
• / Romantic Suspense
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Long after midnight, Amanda was awakened by strange noises coming from the tower room. They were faint at first, then grew louder, and were much like those made by someone crying in the night… Amanda does not want to go back. She would not have ...

• Jun-1983
• / Romantic Suspense
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Andrea's help is needed for the deadliest trick on Earth... -- Andrea shivers the first time she sees the dreary old mansion. She's glad she's just visiting Shadowlawn for a school project. The last thing she expects is to be trapped there, held pr...

• Jan-1984
• / Gothic
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THE DEADLY ROSE A desperate impulse to escape an unhappy romance sent Paula Stanhope fleeing down an unfamiliar road. She instictively recoiled from the monstrous, evil looking old house at its end, but she needed help. She could not know tha...

• Oct-1998
• / Gothic
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BLACKHALL had always fascinated me. I wanted to photograph it against the soft backdrop of snow. As I focused my camera someone crept up behind me and struck me down… I awoke alone inside the house. It was a maze of curving corridors and stairca...

• Oct-2001
• / Gothic
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THE FOOTSTEPS WRE HEAVY... the kind that could have been made only by a man. And Lisa hoped that it was Tony in that room behind the closed door. There was no other man in Ledge House. She rapped softly against the door panel. And then a bit...

• Jan-2002
• / Gothic
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Stonehall was a grim relic of a past that should have been dead and buried. The people who came to it seemed to be drawn into an unhealthy dream world, where love turned to hatred, and bitter memories marked the course of daily life. Maria Arnold cam...

• / Gothic
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In a frenzy of fear, Alicia stared at Blacktower rising into the night like a giant headstone over a grave--her own! Most housed are meant to live in... BLACKTOWER WAS MEANT TO DIE IN! As soon as she entered Blacktower, Alicia Lawson was swept...

• / Gothic
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Dark Welcome Elsbeth Thayer came to Avernus, the dark house on the raw seacoast, in answer to a repeated invitation from her old schoolfriend, Melisandra Aldrich. Both girls were orphans, and Lisandra found herself unwilling to return aloe to a bl...

• / Gothic
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Emily Sheridan battles the mark of the beast to save her world from eternal damnation! Stonegate... The statue was huge, twice as large as life, and ominous in the tatters of fog that drifted across the lawn, Its dark wood was slimy with dampne...

• / Gothic
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A weird cult that fed on hatred and a house where time stood still made Claudia a prisoner of evil PRISONER OF VENGEANCE JOURNEY INTO STRANGENESS Fog-shrouded statues, an old, ugly house of cold, barren rooms and endless corridors. The so...

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• / Gothic
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In dead of night with hidden faces -- Ghosts come forth from secret places She dared to learn the secret of the living dead! HOUSE OF VENGEFUL GHOSTS When pretty Rosemary Gilbert arrived at Farview, she could hardly believe how the old ho...

• / Gothic
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Terror at Graymists …after many years Laura Crawford returns to the horrifying scene of her childhood. …she has come back to uncover the truth about the murder she witnessed years before -- a crime she had accused her uncle of committing. ...

• / Gothic
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It was the sort of cheerful suburban street where trouble never came. Daffodils bloomed in the well-tended yards. There was no crime. The people worked hard and had their share of joys and satisfactions. All, that is, except one. Rita Prentice was...

• / Gothic
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WHO WAS SHE? When Paula's mother died, her life was turned upside down - for she found evidence that the woman who'd raised and loved her was a heartless criminal who lived a lie for twenty years: treating the kidnapped granddaughter of a famous s...

• / Gothic
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No Place To Run… Marcia Lovell ran away from Bannersville when she lost the only man in the world she could love �" lost Adam Wilson, to her cousin, Gloria. She managed to stay away from the past until the day when her plane was forced down at...

• / Gothic
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A long ago death traps Angela Wallace in a world of terror…and deadly danger! She was a still beautiful, once famous actress whose day had passed. Not even her handsome young husband could assuage the grief she still felt for her long dead child...

• / Gothic
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Andrea Stanton hadn't planned on going to Fauncroft, the ancient Salem house where witches were once hanged. But when her neighbor, Charlene Metiver, suggested Andrea spend her vacation there, she accepted. Perhaps it would prove interesting, Andrea ...

• / Gothic
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On The Night Of The Moonrose, Beth Sherwood was to be married -- and murdered! Because of a quirk of fate, Beth was destined to suffer terror and danger from the moment she came to Devil’s Walk -- the eerie home of the strange Buxton family. ...

• / Gothic
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In this place of joyless pleasures, she met the miniature of Satan, who had claimed her for his own... Something unseen was drawing Linda into the dance of the living dead... Wildly gyrating, these ghostly shapes she'd known in another pla...

• / Gothic
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SUDDENLY JENNIFER GRAHAM REALIZES SHE IS A PRISONER AT BLEAK LOST HOUSE. CAN SHE ESCAPE THESE EVIL SURROUNDINGS? From the moment Jennifer Graham enters the isolated castle on Midnight Mountain as companion to Adeline, the mad daughter of sinister ...

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Desperately, Connie tries to unlock the secret of Lucifer's Island, not only to satisfy her curiosity - but to save her life! The eerie, ruined mansion called Wildwinds cast its terror-filled spell on Connie Morgan as soon as she set foot ont he r...

• / Gothic
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Emily Blanchard was a true daughter of Taurus. She was determined, curious, and, ever since childhood, had longed to live in elegance. So it was no wonder she was fascinated by Starview, the Victorian mansion in her home town, and delighted when its ...

• / Gothic
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Where Evil Waits The New England house was none to welcoming--a cold grey, two-story box that looked like it might collapse in a strong wind...Her hostess was none too friendly--a small disheveled woman with a stony little face... Venetia W...

• / Gothic
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Tonight, with the room almost completely dark, the chairs and love seats and footstools had lost their outlines and seemed to have become crouching shadows. More fancies - I am letting myself become obsessed by them, Elizabeth thought, allowing my...

• / Gothic
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"Come to Highcliff" said the voice on the telephone. "Come as soon as possible! I need you! I'll be waiting!" The last thing Julie Forsythe wanted was to return to Highcliff..the evil, haunted mansion where wild, weird music filled the air, myster...

• / Gothic
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A grim and hideous curse . . . A handsome, brooding master . . . three pale and ghastly visitors . . . When Jennie Maxwell came to work as the Louvaynes' family governess, she hadn't known about the Louvayne family curse. But when three pale, ghastly...

• / Gothic
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Hell spawned death traps Amy Vaughn in a house built of family hatred--a family she never knew! GATEWAY TO EVIL Ferion stood in a hollow between two hills that rose unevenly, giving the house a lopsided look. The effect was as if those bits and...

• / Gothic
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Something evil had invaded tranquil Anamark Island -- an evil that had already taken one life. Now it was reaching out again...could it be stopped before it destroyed everything Paula Bancroft loved? Journey to terror... Paula Bancroft love th...

• / Gothic
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Night Walk… They body lay sprawled in the sand at the foot of the veranda stairs of the Mirarosa Beach Manor, stiffening fingers clutching a handkerchief with the initials “M M,” -- her initials, Monica Merrill thought, dazed, but not her ha...