Geraldine Bonner

New York corporate lawyer Hollings Harland falls 18 stories from the Black Eagle Building onto Broadway. Was it suicide or something more sinister? Harland had just left an angry meeting. Molly, an amateur detective and switchboard operator, suspects it is murder and she teams up with criminal lawyer and a reporter to solve the crime. Loose sequel to The Girl From Central.

Molly Morganthau works as a switchboard operator for a New York telephone exchange. But Molly has a secret: she's also an amateur detective who picks up clues by eavesdropping on callers. In Geraldine Bonner's first Molly Morganthau novel, Molly helps to solve a murder. Subsequent books featuring the character saw her working as an undercover private eye for a team of lawyers.

Bernice Iverson is a she-devil who runs away from her husband to San Francisco where she begins work in a business office. There she meets Dominick Ryan, a rich young man, whom she seduces and marries. When she proves unable to force her way into the rich social circle in which the Ryan's belong, she becomes infuriated and reveals her true character. Horrified, Dominick flees San Francisco in the depth of winter and goes to a mountain hotel. On the way. he encounters a terrible snow storm and is overcome by the cold. He is rescued by a volunteer search party and is carried to the hotel where he is nursed back to health by Rose, the beautiful daughter of old Bill Canon, who soon falls in love with Dominick. The story concludes in dramatic fashion as Bernice tries to manipulate the situation while Dominick struggles to free himself from her so he can marry Rose.

Concha Argüello, Sister Dominica, by Gertrude Atherton The ford of Crèvecour, by Mary Austin A Californian, by Geraldine Bonner Gideon's knock, by Mary Halleck Foote A yellow man and a white, by Eleanor Gates The judgment of man, by James Hopper The league of the old men, by Jack London Down the flume with the sneath piano, by Bailey Millard The contumacy of Sarah L. Walker, by Miriam Michelson Breaking through, by W.C. Morrow A lost story, by Frank Norris Hantu, by, Henry Milner Rideout Miss Juno, by Charles Warren Stoddard A little savage gentleman, by Isabel Strong Love and advertising, by Richard Walton Tully The Tewana, by Herman Whitaker.