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For Ross Elliot the summer held no promise. With his teaching duties over until fall, he found himself facing boredom, with time on his hands. Which was why he didn't hesitate to involve himself in the affairs...
It all started innocently enough in New York's Gramercy Park district. Archie Gamble, a Gemini, is writing a TV special on astrology under the expert but irritating tutelage of Anna Muckermann. The show's success...
A MURDER BEGINS AND ENDS this story of scandal and tragedy in a college town. You'll meet some memorable characters here - most of them hair-raising - as novelist Vin Packer spins out a sinister excursion with...
On their first night Carrie had been nervous, and Slater had tried to think of some way to make it easier for her, to show her how fine and free it could be. But the moment they'd stepped into the cabin, she...
Somehow he'd ended up with someone else's coat . . . and that act could end Robert Bowser's life before it started.
His hand trembled as he answered the phone.
''Mr. Bowser?''
''Yes.''
''Mr. Bowser, my name is Harvey...
WHY DID THEY KILL? These were nice kids, model kids. They didn't wear leather jackets and roam the streets in "wolf packs"; they didn't steal and mug for dope. For kids, they were well mannered and quiet. They...
The moment of truth . . . Mary Drew knelt down on the rug. She leaned forward, her mouth within an inch of Martha's. "l love you," she said. "I've loved you from the very moment we met. But I won't kiss you....
She was hurrying past the field on her way home when the man stepped out from behind a tree and stood spraddle-legged in her path. Ginny Lee was uncommonly pretty, a small girl with unusually long legs for someone...
The Lesson - According to Kicks . . .
Heine pointed the knife at her. ''O.K., Lady Godiva, take off the blouse.''
She stood motionless, unable to answer or move.
''Go ahead,'' Heine said. ''Take that piece-of-nothing...
''The gallows in my garden, people say,
Is new and neat and adequately tall.
I tie the noose on in a knowing way
As one that knots his necktie for a ball;
But just as all the neighbors . . . on the wail . . .
Are...
Three people were dead, their heads bashed in, their bodies hacked with a samurai sword. All three victims were Japanese. The murder weapon was traced to Nick Martin, a veteran of Iwo Jima. Nick had spent fifteen...
The dirtiest killer of the year was the man private investigator Ed Rivers had to save from the chair.
Wally Tulman, Florida socialite, had been convicted of molesting and murdering a young girl.
Tulman's lovely...
A telephone rang - and Steve Griffin recognized the distant, terrified voice of his wife. ''He's trying to run me down with a car. He's trying to smash the life out of me, Steve.'' But who her pursuer was Maureen...
''Buy me a drink,'' she said.
''I'm too poor,'' I said.
''I'll buy you one.''
''I'm too proud,'' I said.
''In my apartment,'' she said, ''there's Scotch, rye, bourbon - anything you want!''
''Anything?''
''Anything!''...
Her fortune was the price on her head
Burt Keating had been trying to make the acquaintance of his pretty red-headed neighbor, but he wasn't getting very far - until the day she escaped from a strange roadside...
She put her head on my shoulder. Her hand slid off my thigh and into my lap, paused. She kissed my ear, lingered there. ''And what are you afraid of?'' she whispered.
''Afraid you'll stop,'' I said against the...
''You asked my business,'' remarked Dasher, ''and I told you that I'm a trouble-shooter. I shoot trouble - with this.'' He waved the .45. ''And you're trouble. My client asked that you both be removed, and I'm...
Mystery Bookstore owner Annie Laurance is well-acquainted with murder, but she never imagined one taking place on her honeymoon! A marvelous spoof of New Age mumbo jumbo by an author whose work has been compared...
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
Previously published in the print anthology Weddings From Hell, with New York Times bestsellers Jeaniene Frost, Maggie Shayne, and Kathryn Smith.
Nicki Styx sees dead people. Worse, she's a replacement bridesmaid...