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Three women are caught in the grip of the past in this Southern gothic mystery from the beloved twentieth-century American author.
There's nothing to stop Pock Myles, single and unattached, from traveling to Louisiana to comfort her recently widowed and pregnant sister, Rye. But this is no ordinary visit. Recently, there have been bizarre happenings at Larchwood, the vast estate where Rye's staying with their aunt.
When Pock arrives, Rye takes her...
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The beloved author of the Rachel Murdock Mysteries introduces an amateur sleuth who knows murder is never academic-especially when it comes to love.
Professor Pennyfeather is on his way to the desert town of Superstition to help a former student, now an army man. Tick Burrell is a charming troublemaker who's got himself in a bit of a bind. He's due to inherit a fortune when he marries, but until then, his aunt, Martha Andler, holds the purse strings...
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This classic mystery features a family feud, feline intervention, and the spirited septuagenarian sleuth from The Cat Saw Murder.
A strange encounter with a little girl named Claudia and a dead toad sparks Rachel Murdock's obsessive curiosity, and she winds up renting the house next door just to see how things play out. But soon, after she and her cat Samantha move in, Rachel realizes they've landed right in the middle of a deadly love triangle that's...
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A San Francisco police detective becomes obsessed with a sculptress's apparent suicide-and hounds his new wife into helping him solve the case . . .
When Officer Charles confronts a man acting erratically early in the morning on a quiet residential street in San Francisco, he presumes it's a case of public intoxication-until the man blurts out that Mabel Edwards has hanged herself. The sculptress, who'd been working on a menacing-looking Druid...
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Terror places its stamp on a woman unwittingly caught up in a dangerous game in this gripping thriller from the author of A Collection of Strangers.
Jennifer Burch is just a small-town Midwestern girl trying to stay afloat in New York City with her husband, a struggling playwright. But an odd request from her Uncle Baxter promises some relief. Always the black sheep of the family, he's asked Jennifer to hand-deliver one of the letters he left with...
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A sleuthing English professor looks into the sordid secret life of a student who's gone missing . . .
When a young woman comes to Professor Pennyfeather and confides that her cousin Ernestine-one of his English students-is missing, he's surprised to hear that the bookish girl in his class is a very different person outside of school. Apparently, in the evenings, she transforms herself into a femme fatale and looks for naïve young sailors at...
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A letter has arrived at the home shared by the elderly Murdock sisters and their black cat, Samantha. It stirs Rachel's curiosity, and Jennifer's alarm, as she fears her sibling will once again head off on a dangerous adventure in detection. The letter-writer is an old friend's granddaughter who explains that a bizarre drawing of a hand has been slipped under her door, making her very uneasy, and she'd appreciate Rachel's sleuthing skills.
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The senior super-sleuth is the odds-on favorite to discover if a killer stalks the Hollywood Hills in the final Rachel Murdock mystery.
Though, not a professional private eye, Miss Rachel Murdock has gained notoriety in certain Los Angeles circles for her crime-solving skills. They come in handy after she witnesses an extraordinary event: a woman being thrown into the window of a pet store.
Said woman is Ruth Rand, an actress desperate to find her...
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Native American lore infuses a southwestern mystery featuring the indomitable Rachel Murdock and her cat, Samantha.
The notes-short and sharp-seem to strike at the heart of each recipient's insecurities and darkest secrets. Signed "Kachina," they've been sent to a group of friends who met in college, including Rachel Murdock's goddaughter, Gail. When Gail wants to unmask the letter writer by inviting the group to her house in Arizona, she asks...
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A drunken man is shot dead on his doorstep in this classic mystery starring the "observant [and] appealing" seventy-year-old sleuth (Publishers Weekly).
Walking home wearily from an evening spent poring over the books of the Parchly Heights Methodist Ladies' Aid searching for a fifty-eight-cent error, Miss Jennifer Murdock becomes witness to a terrible scene: A man, stumbling drunk, arrives home-and just as he fumbles with his keys, gunfire...
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