Miles Tripp
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Description
Miles Barton Tripp was an English writer of thirty-seven works of fiction including crime novels and thrillers, some of which he wrote under the noms de plume Michael Brett and John Michael Brett. During World War II, He served in RAF Bomber Command, flying thirty-seven sorties as a bomber-aimer. He recorded his wartime experiences in his one non-fiction work, the memoir The Eighth Passenger. After the war, Tripp studied law and worked as a solicitor, and started to write fiction during his spare time. His crime series featuring London-based, pricey private investigator John Samson, who collects antique clocks and eats quiche during stakeouts, counts fourteen titles.
Books
Death is catching
Based on Kilo Forty by Miles Tripp. In this tense, psychological thriller set in a remote part of Egypt, French ex-pats, Hélène and Philippe, are on holiday with their English friend, Foster Smith, and Haik, an Armenian businessman. Foster Smith finds a woman's mutilated body on the beach and, with Hélène apparently missing, the scene is set for a game of bluff and double bluff that will leave two others dead and the hapless Foster Smith the fall guy yet again.
The cords of vanity
The Cords of Vanity by James Branch Cabell is the thirteenth installment in his Biography of the Life of Manuel series. Robert Etheridge Townsend is an arrogant young man from a prominent wealthy family (he is the great-grandson of Jurgen of Poictesme). As a teenager, he falls in love with Stella, beginning the first of many love affairs. Townsend’s vanity allows him to proceed through these love affairs with disregard for the women who are the objects of his “affection.” As the years pass, he begins to mature, but still struggles to overcome the need to avoid any situation that may cause him unpleasantness. The Cords of Vanity was originally published in 1909, and was revised in 1920 (the edition on which this ebook is based) with an introduction by author Wilson Follett. Six of the chapters were originally published as short stories in the monthly literary magazine The Smart Set.
Extreme provocation
Lucy Winslow and Randal Marlborough met - or, rather, collided passionately - when Lucy went in search of her gambling father. Right away, Randal made it clear that he found her very attractive but Lucy turned to safe, comfortable Edward. When her father became bankrupt and Randal demanded that Lucy marry him, she had no choice but to go along with his wishes. Did her feelings for Edward really stand between her and Randal, or had she met her kindred spirit?