Death Walked In/Dorothea's Revenge — Lorena Ann Olmstead

Everyone believed Jim Blayne guilty of his wife Dorothea's murder -- everyone except his former sweetheart. But did Sally have the right to ask Race Danvers, who loved her, to help her save the man she had never stopped loving…?

When the invitation from Dorothea arrived, Sally Enders longed to tear it up. The last thing she wanted to do was attend the Blaynes' first anniversary party. But she couldn't very well stay away - not unless she wanted to have the whole town whispering that she was still carrying the torch for Jim Blayne! And Dorothea knew that - as she knew that no one else she was inviting would dare refuse to come. But there was a guess she hadn't planned on : death. The night of the party, Dorothea was found murdered, and everyone in Lakeport believed it was her husband, Jim, who killed her- everyone but Sally, the girl he jilted. In a desperate attempt to save her childhood sweetheart, she turned to the only person she could trust: her fiance, attorney Race Danvers, who knew that by helping this woman he loved, he might lose her forever...

First published in 1960 as: Death Walked In
Also published as Dorothea's Revenge