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Noel B. Gerson
Also known as: Noel Bertram Gerson,, Anne Marie Burgess
Noel B. Gerson (Noel Bertram Gerson) (1914 - 1988) aka Anne Marie Burgess, Samuel Edwards, Leon Phillips, Donald Clayton Porter, Dana Fuller Ross The main themes of Noel B's writing included personalities and events in American history. Among the subjects of his biographies were Sam Houston, Kit Carson and Presidents Andrew Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt. As Dana Fuller Ross, he wrote the popular ''Wagons West'' series; as Donald Clayton Porter, he wrote the ''White Indian'' series. Two of his novels, ''55 Days at Peking'' and ''The Naked Maja,'' were made into movies. Noel B. who wrote 325 books of fact and fiction under his own name and several pseudonyms, died at the age of 75 in 1988. Mr. Gerson is survived by his wife, Marilyn, and a son, Paul, both of Boca Raton; three daughters, Noel-Anne Brennan of Peacedale, R.I., Michelle Schechter of Fort Pierce, Fla., and Margot Burgett of Moose River, Me., and four grandchildren. - from fantasticfiction.com
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
— from The Highwayman
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Mirror, Mirror
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The Highwayman
The harsh, desolate moors of Yorkshire was a place of forbidding beauty, strange enchantment - and unexpected danger to those who travelled its midnight roads alone... She was a virtuous and beautiful domestic servant living for the day she would journey to a better life in America. Until a trumped-up murder charge forced Jane Fitzpatrick to flee her Yorkshire home. On that fateful night when she wandered far from all she knew, she would meet the highwayman - a man as dark and dangerous as the secrets that haunted him. Intrigued by this seductive outlaw who shielded and sheltered her, Jane couldn't deny her hungry yearning when he took her in his arms. As their hideout became a place of shared dreams and soaring desire, she knew she'd found the love she'd been searching for... a love that could break both their hearts... or sweep them into an adventure beyond compare
The velvet glove
1911
John Berridge, celebrated American author and playwright, is attending a social gathering at the studio of an artistic sponsor, Madame Gloriani. Berridge had traveled to Paris to attend a production of one of his plays and to meet the wealthy patrons who use his fame to warrant their own expensive but superficial membership of any lavish clique. To this salon Madame Gloriani invites the fashionable people and also those who want to attract the attention of the upper class. Berridge is so accustomed to these soirees that occasionally he becomes inattentive. This is how he meets aspiring author Amy Evans whose young restlessness overtakes Berridge in an attempt to show him "The Velvet Glove," the new book she has written, and to ask him to write a preface to it. Because he is temporarily confounded by her public bravery, he allows her to occupy his benumbed courtesy until he discovers they are in a taxi driving to her home where she has promised his supper. He is suddenly focused on this predicament and realizes that his mumbled niceties will not be accomplished. The rest of this encounter demonstrates Berridge's unpolished compassionless manner of extricating himself from this tangle of assumptions, expectations, and promises. Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable.