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Up and up crept the weight. Its touch was cold and scaly; she shuddered at the contact. At the same dreadful moment she realised what the Thing was.
Esther Rowe, a Canadian, is on holiday in Cannes. She decides to stay on, and seeks nursing employment with the enigmatic and elusive Dr. Gregory Santorius. She finds herself caring for the ageing invalid Sir Charles Clifford, and meets various members of his family, some nice-some less so.
Certain...
2) Spiderweb
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"So Jeanne has a lover," she concluded with a touch of amused wonder. "But what a lover!"
Somehow the creature had suggested an undertaker.
Alone in Paris after arriving from America, Catherine West finds herself swiftly and dangerously involved in the mysterious case of her cousin, Madame Germaine Bender. Catherine has received a letter from one of Mme Bender's close friends, urging her to come to Paris for reasons unspecified but pressing. When...
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"Her maid found her this morning. She was lying across the bed, strangled."
Young Virginia Carew is making a trip to England when she encounters old friend Glenn Hillier-strangely altered from the last time they met. Glenn is besotted with a glamorous middle-aged lady, with whom he's been staying in the blissful English countryside. It isn't long before Virginia too is a guest of the family, but there are snakes in this garden of Eden-snakes at first...
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"The only thing plain to me is that you're determined to shield that girl-that murderess."
Dodo Quarles liked to live fast. The parties in her Paris apartment were events to be remembered. Dodo, not yet twenty-one, could always be relied upon to supply a new thrill for her jaded guests. On this occasion, she had surpassed herself. Each guest had partaken of a rare dish-an Indian sweet which concealed a drug reputed to induce slumber and evocative...
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"I may tell you it's a matter of murder."
What did Caroline Bundy keep in the alligator bag?
Why was the key missing from around the dead woman's neck?
Did Caroline Bundy really give the pearl necklace to Natasha, or-?
What was the "medicine" that Tilbury gave Miss Bundy?
What were the contents of the paper that disappeared from the library?
How do these clues answer the question-WHO KILLED CAROLINE BUNDY?
The Murder of Caroline Bundy was originally...
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It was Margaret Fairlamb-still warm, but stone-dead.
Margaret Fairlamb, celebrated actress, had been a popular and genuinely loved figure in the world of the theatre. Her death at the hands of an unknown, brutal assailant was a calamity fraught with horror not only to her family and friends, but to a wide public as well. Every known fact pointed to robbery as the motive. What other belief was possible when the victim had not an enemy in the world,...
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"How would you feel if your own flesh-and-blood suddenly developed into a fiend who wants to murder another person you're fond of?"
Flying Blind has nothing to do with aviation.
The title is used metaphorically to describe a situation in which daily, even hourly, calamity threatens through a fog of mystery. The fog enfolds the characters in the story; blinding them to their position; blotting out the truth; making every move a danger; effacing,...
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Clare-her Clare-was gone.
Mystery in Paris! A disappearance as surprising and baffling as if it had been done by magic. A young girl, barely fifteen, beautiful yet shy and under constant protection, disappears in the one moment that is offered. Between the click of a garden gate and the opening of a door. Fifteen seconds! The quiet dispatch of the affair was its most appalling feature. No struggle, no outcry. She had vanished into the thin air with...
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A shriek rang sharply out only to be chopped in two-exactly as though a hand had been clamped roughly on the screamer's mouth. It was followed by brusque, striding footsteps and the soft closing of a door.
It was purely by chance that David Beddoes and Alison Young stumbled on the strange house in Hampstead-a thick fog made it easy to mistake their destination-and thus set in motion the extraordinary train of events that was to end so sensationally....
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