<div><b>A Chicago socialite braves death to save her beloved from the gallows</b>Search Abbott is high over Chicago when Howland proposes marriage, but her heart is far away. Since childhood she has loved Richard Bohan, and her passion has not dimmed in the three years since he made the mistake of marrying Eve. Howland has few kind words for Richard, but Search&rsquo;s heart cannot be moved. She declines him, and leaves to visit her Aunt Ludmilla, a kindly old woman who claims she is being poisoned. She finds Richard staying at Ludmilla&rsquo;s estate, and all her old feelings come rushing forth. His marriage is finished, he says, as he takes Search in his arms. But joy is fleeting&mdash;Eve will never let him go. Search&rsquo;s hatred for her rival evaporates the moment she finds Eve dangling from a hangman&rsquo;s noose. The woman was murdered, and the police are going to take Richard away.<BR></div>

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The Hangman's Whip

<div><B>From one of the most prolific authors of the Golden Age of mystery: </B><B>&ldquo;A nice example of [Eberhart&rsquo;s] powers . . . Intelligently complicated&rdquo; (<I>The New Yorker</I>).</B><BR />  When Conrad Stanley dies, Laura is the only heir not concerned with her slice of his estate. Orphaned at a young age, she was Stanley&rsquo;s ward, and cannot celebrate the death of the only father she ever knew. The executors of Stanley&rsquo;s will find that he had a Polish relative, Conrad Stanislowski, who is due part of the inheritance. A search for Stanislowski produces only his daughter: eight-year-old Jonny, who comes to Chicago to live with Laura. Soon a man claiming to be Stanislowski turns up at Laura&rsquo;s doorstep, demanding his daughter and his chunk of Stanley&rsquo;s wealth. When the mysterious interloper is found stabbed to death, Laura is a suspect. If she doesn&rsquo;t move fast, the only inheritance she gets from dear, departed Conrad will be a permanent stay in a federal prison.</div>

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Postmark Murder

<div><B>Two nurses investigate a millionaire&rsquo; s suspicious gunshot wound in this &ldquo;absorbing&rdquo; mystery by a Special Edgar Award&ndash;winning author (<I>The New York Times</I>).</B> It takes a compound fracture to bring Craig Brent and Drue Cable together. A millionaire injured in an auto accident, Craig falls quickly for his nurse, wedding Drue as soon as his arm is mended. Craig&rsquo;s father, disgusted to see his son marrying below his station, pressures him into a divorce, and the whirlwind marriage dies in Reno. A year later, the young lovers are given a second chance, when a bullet shatters Craig&rsquo;s shoulder. The family insists Craig shot himself while cleaning his gun, but Drue has never known a man to clean his gun at eleven o&rsquo;clock at night. She calls on Sarah Keate, whose nursing skill is matched only by her deductive reasoning, to unravel the mystery. When Sarah arrives at the Brent house, Craig is in a drugged sleep. If he is ever to awake, the nurses must unmask the killer in his family.</div>

Wolf in Man's Clothing

<div><b>A mystery author finds her knowledge of murder put to practical use</b>Inside the lovely head of Susan Dare, grisly murder lurks. A mystery author who makes her living providing tidy solutions to imaginary crimes, Dare is enjoying a much-needed vacation when the mood at her host&rsquo;s house turns sour. Ugly secrets lurk in the Frame family&rsquo;s past, and jealousy stirs beneath the surface of their tranquil country estate. Dare makes plans to leave before her hosts turn on each other, but she is too late. On the morning of her departure, a gunshot echoes through the fog. Only a beautiful author with a head full of murder mysteries can pinpoint the killer. In this handful of elegant, classic stories, Mignon Eberhart&rsquo;s amateur detective proves her worth time and time again. Decades before <i>Murder, She Wrote</i>, Eberhart realized that those who write mysteries can solve them too.</div>

The Cases of Susan Dare

<div><b>A young girl is consumed by love for a tortured married man</b>Myra has lived at Thorne House for so long that she almost feels part of the family. Orphaned at a young age, she has never known another home, and yet it is time for her to leave. She is burning with an irresistible passion for Richard, the man of the house, and she knows that her love can never be fulfilled. For Richard is married to Alice, and Alice is guilty of murder. Myra knows that Richard is too noble to ask an incarcerated woman for a divorce, but on the eve of her departure he surprises her, confessing that he loves her in return. Just as Myra&rsquo;s future happiness seems assured, Alice returns to crush it. The convicted killer is back at Thorne House, and blood will follow in her wake.</div>

Another Woman's House

<div><B>A tale of murder and suspense in Revolutionary-era South Carolina, from an Edgar Award&ndash;winning author: &ldquo;One of America&rsquo;s favorite writers&rdquo; (Mary Higgins Clark).</B><BR />  <BR /> Amity Mallam fears that her family&rsquo;s loyalty to King George III may result in their land being seized by George Washington&rsquo;s army&mdash;and in a last-ditch effort to save it, she marries her cousin Simon, a rebel. After the priest who officiated the ceremony is murdered&mdash;along with a lawyer who attended&mdash;she sets off to Jamaica to find her father, who had left her behind to run the plantation.<BR />  <BR /> But even more danger and turmoil awaits in the Caribbean, and Amity must untangle the truth and stave off the armies of two nations to protect them all.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;Intriguing.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Houston Chronicle</I><BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;One of the most thorough and ingenious plotters in the trade.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The New Yorker</I><BR />  </div>

Enemy in the House

<div><B>A woman and her nemesis are caught in a cycle of romantic intrigue in this seductive mystery by the Edgar Award&ndash;winning author of <I>The Patient in Room 18</I>.  </B><BR />   Averill Blaine should have been married years ago, but Eden Shore stole her fianc&eacute; Noel&rsquo;s heart. Eden, a fashion model, needed only a few weeks with Noel before he broke his engagement and proposed to her instead, but she never went through with the marriage. Years later, Averill has found a new fianc&eacute;, and nothing&mdash;not Eden, not even murder&mdash;will get in her way. Eden goes to Averill&rsquo;s wedding in hopes of seducing Noel once more. As the two couples circle warily, death intrudes&mdash;in the shape of a suspicious airplane crash that kills Averill&rsquo;s uncle. He is an expert pilot, but no amount of skill can stop the flames that leap from his engine as he crests 15,000 feet. Still, Averill and Eden are determined to say &ldquo;I do,&rdquo; no matter how many die on their way to the altar.</div>

The Chiffon Scarf

<div><b>While visiting her sister, a woman becomes ensnared in a cursed house<BR><BR></b>Serena&rsquo;s last memories of California are of her sister Amanda&rsquo;s wedding to Sutton Condit, a wealthy rancher from Monterey&rsquo;s oldest family. But when she remembers those days, she doesn&rsquo;t think of the bride but instead dreams of Jem, a sturdy young man who won her heart so completely that, when she couldn&rsquo;t have him, she fled to New York. Four years later she returns for a visit, and Jem is as charming as ever. He hasn&rsquo;t changed, but everything else on the Condit ranch has. Bitterness has crept into Amanda&rsquo;s entourage, and strange secrets pollute the fine California air. Something terrible is afoot in the Condit mansion, and Serena has just begun to sense it when Sutton&rsquo;s aunt tumbles off a cliff near the house. The old woman&rsquo;s plunge seems like an accident until more murders follow. Nothing can protect Serena from the menace that haunts Monterey.</div>

Escape the Night

<div><b>Trapped in an evil man&rsquo;s house, a young wife searches for an escape<BR><BR></b>Though she can&rsquo;t admit it to anyone, the day of her husband&rsquo;s car accident is one of the best days in Marcia Godden&rsquo;s short life. After three years of marriage to Ivan, she has seen his darkest side, and now his very footsteps are enough to make her shudder. A guilty thrill goes through her when she hears of his accident, only to be replaced by terror when she learns that her husband is going to live. For four glorious, peaceful weeks, Ivan remains in the hospital. In the relief of this temporary freedom, Marcia confides in her neighbor, cheerful, handsome Robert Copley, and soon falls in love with him. Not long after her husband&rsquo;s return from the hospital, Marcia finds Ivan stabbed in the chest, and police suspicion falls on her. To save herself from prison, she must prove herself innocent of the murder of the one man she most wanted dead.</div>

Fair Warning

<div><B>The acclaimed, Edgar Award&ndash;winning author &ldquo;tells one of her better mystery-romances in <I>Call After Midnight</I>&rdquo; (<I>The New York Times</I>).</B><BR />   The phone rings just after twelve. Jenny Vleedam knows it cannot be anyone but Peter, and she tries to let it ring. He left her for another woman&mdash;a vicious trollop called Fiora&mdash;and Jenny has too much self-respect to let him kick her around anymore. But she answers anyway, and hears the words she has been longing for: Fiora has been shot. But as often as she has fantasized about something happening to the woman who stole her husband, now Jenny feels only fear&mdash;fear that the police might not believe Peter&rsquo;s story that Fiora was the one holding the gun. Not knowing if the woman is dead or alive, Jenny rushes to Peter&rsquo;s side. Guilty or innocent, they will never be apart again. </div>

Call After Midnight

<div><b>On the day of her wedding, a bride&rsquo;s ex-lover is found shot dead</b>In January, Dorcas Whipple was on the cusp of marrying Ronald Drew. One month later, she prepares to walk down the aisle, but Ronald will not be the groom after all. Her family decided he is unsuitable, a fortune hunter, and though Dorcas fought them, in the end she could not resist the pleas of her invalid mother. As she prepares to marry the steady, dependable Jevan Locke instead, she tries to put Ronald out of her mind. But when Ronald calls her the night before her wedding, she rushes to his side. Resisting her passion, Dorcas refuses Ronald&rsquo;s final plea for her hand. The next morning, when he is found shot dead, Dorcas is the only suspect. If her wedding goes ahead, will the bride wear white, or pinstripes?</div>

Hasty Wedding

<div><b>On a storm-ravaged Caribbean isle, a woman confronts love and murder</b>After her father&rsquo;s death, there is nothing for Nonie to do but come to Beadon Island. Royal Beadon, plantation owner and descendent of the man who first settled this windswept spit of tropical land, was her father&rsquo;s closest friend, and he asks Nonie for her hand. As she prepares for her wedding, though, Nonie feels uneasy. The marriage is rational, but there is nothing rational about her sudden feelings for Jim Shaw. The heir to one of the neighboring plantations, Jim is the only person who makes Nonie feel at home on the island. But when his aunt and benefactor is murdered, suspicion falls on Jim. Caught between a suspected killer and a man she does not love, Nonie fights to keep her sanity. A storm is coming to Beadon Island, and if she is not careful, the tropical winds might sweep her away.<BR></div>

House of Storm

<div><B>Edgar Award&ndash;Winning Author</B><B>: On the eve of her wedding night, a bride-to-be loses her fianc&eacute;&mdash;but is she grieving or guilty?</B><BR />  Dennis comes home as soon as he learns that Daphne is about to marry. Though they are both Havilands, raised in the same house, she is no more than a distant cousin, not related by blood, and he has loved her since they were young. He arrives in Chicago the night before the wedding, determined to stop her from giving Ben Brewer her hand. Their passion flares, and she agrees to meet him that night to plan their future together. Both lovers arrive in time for the rendezvous, but there is another surprise: Brewer&rsquo;s bloody corpse. The evidence against Dennis and Daphne is insurmountable. Fight as they may to evade police suspicion, the hangman&rsquo;s noose slips ever tighter around their necks. They are finally together&mdash;but will they be joined for eternity at the altar, or the gallows?</div>

Danger in the Dark

<div><B>When murder descends on a small Southern town, nothing is more dangerous than telling the truth </B><BR /><BR />Ernestine Baily was killed at dusk on a cold fall day as fog and darkness rolled over Hollow Hill. Five months later, her husband, Jed, whom she accused of the crime, stands trial. But in the small Virginia town of Bedford, many question his culpability, among them the murder&rsquo;s lone witness: Sue Poore. Sue&rsquo;s testimony ensures Jed&rsquo;s freedom&mdash;something the local paper quickly seizes on as evidence of a scandalous romance. But beyond causing her to suffer this indignity, Sue&rsquo;s avowal makes her a marked woman, targeted by a local policeman as the next best suspect, and by a mysterious gunman whose second bullet may not miss.<BR /> <BR />In a town like Bedford, almost anyone can look guilty, and when Sue becomes caught between three men&mdash;two vying for her heart and one for her imprisonment&mdash;she knows that the real murderer sits quietly in their midst.<BR /></div>

Hunt with the Hounds

<div><B>From &ldquo;one of America&rsquo;s favorite writers&rdquo;: When a member of an aristocratic family takes a bullet, a nurse and amateur sleuth investigates (Mary Higgins Clark).</B><BR /><BR /> Nurse Sarah Keate is no stranger to mystery. An intrepid redhead with a biting wit, Nurse Keate has solved conspiracies and murders in places as varied as her once-sleepy hospital ward, a gothic mansion, and the Sand Hills of Nebraska. But what she encounters with the Thatchers is a new breed of deadly. The Thatchers are as close to aristocracy as an American family can get, and one of their own requires Keate&rsquo;s care for a suspicious bullet wound to his right shoulder&mdash;a relative insists it was self-inflicted.<BR />  <BR /> When the convalescing man dies under even stranger circumstances, Keate knows that he was murdered. And what&rsquo;s worse, there is no doubt that the murderer resides in the Thatcher mansion. As the family closes rank and struggles to keep its darkest secrets buried, Nurse Keate will stop at nothing to find the truth.</div>

Murder by an Aristocrat

<div><B>In these three novels of romantic suspense, the Edgar Award winner proves once again that she &ldquo;can weave an almost flawless mystery&rdquo; (</B><B><I>The New Yorker</I></B><B>).</B><BR />  <BR /> In a prolific career that spanned seven decades, Mignon G. Eberhart made a name for herself as &ldquo;America&rsquo;s Agatha Christie.&rdquo; Praised by fellow writers ranging from Gertrude Stein, who called her &ldquo;one of the best mystifiers in America,&rdquo; to Mary Higgins Clark, who hailed her as &ldquo;one of America&rsquo;s favorite writers,&rdquo; Eberhart penned classic mystery novels of romantic suspense, usually with female leads and often set in exotic locales. The three novels collected here&mdash;written in 1949, 1955, and 1964&mdash;offer further evidence that &ldquo;Eberhart&rsquo;s name on mysteries is like sterling on silver&rdquo; (<I>Miami News</I>).<BR />  <BR /><I>House of Storm</I>: On a Caribbean island in the path of a hurricane, Nonie is torn between the older man she&rsquo;s engaged to and the man she&rsquo;s truly in love with&mdash;a suspected murderer.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;Mounting tension . . . one of [Eberhart&rsquo;s] most successful glamour romances yet.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The New York Times</I><BR />  <BR /><I>Postmark Murder</I>: Following the death of a wealthy Chicago businessman, his ward Laura March must protect her fellow heir&mdash;an orphaned girl from Poland&mdash;and clear herself of a murder after a mysterious stranger is stabbed.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;A nice example of [Eberhart&rsquo;s] powers . . . Intelligently complicated.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The New Yor</I><I>k</I><I>er</I><BR />  <BR /><I>Call After Midnight</I>: A late-night phone call from Jenny Vleedam&rsquo;s ex-husband revealing that his girlfriend has been shot places the divorc&eacute;e in danger.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;Eberhart tells one of her better mystery-romances in <I>Call After Midnight.</I>&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The New York Times</I></div>

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