A Lythway book

A dramatic story of love and intrigue set in the glamorous sun of Majorca. In Palma on vacation, Rosamund Lowe accepted a lift from a stranger named Rune le Motte and was involved in a smash-up. After the auto accident, a fragile blond girl regained consciousness in an unfamiliar house, and gazed upon by mysterious faces. Kept as a virtual prisoner in the strange house, it was her home and she was Rune le Motte the heiress, or so Mark Jervis told her. But Mark's motives were suspect for her, she is confused by the sinister atmosphere that prevailed and is almost forced into marriage against her will. When she meets a destitute singer for whom she conceives a violent atraction, she found herself turning to his hated enemy, Julian Marsh for support. Her memory may have been shattered, but not her strength nor her ability to love. And now the only solutions to the emotional triangle depended on whether she was really Rune le Motte or the girl who impersonate her. Only when she fully recovers her memory that she is able to piece the puzzle.

Disaster-prone Mildred Hubble finds that despite her best efforts she still manages to get into trouble at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, especially after she is put in charge of the new girl, the seemingly placid Enid Nightshade.

For the sake of her family’s fortunes Leonie had agree to an arranged marriage with her cousin Paul. Paul was handsome, rich, and charming, and Leonie had always hero-worshipped him – so on the face of it she wasn’t making such a sacrifice, and there seemed a reasonable chance that in time the two of them might make a success of the marriage. But Paul had never been a one-woman man, to put it mildly, and nothing about his behaviour suggested that marriage had changed him. Particularly where the beautiful but malicious Diane Irvine was concerned…

Anne Sinclair has been haunted by visions of a handsome black-haired warrior all her life. His face invades her dreams and fills her nights with passionate longing. So the beautiful laird's daughter leaves her remote Scottish castle, telling no one, to search for the man called Stephen--a man she does not know but who fights in war-torn England, a place she has never seen. Stephen Harrington, Earl of Langlinais, never expected to rescue this unexplained beauty from the hands of his enemy. And yet, when their eyes first meet, he feels from the depths of his soul that he should know her...that he needs to touch her, and keep her by his side forever. For unknown to both of them, they are in the center of a centuries-old love...a love that is about to surpass their wildest dreams.

Although he is very thin with frizzy hair and thick glasses, nine-year-old Ruskin believes he is born to be a hero and sets out to prove it by delivering his beloved Lizard Street from the menace of Krindlekrax.

A dramatic and moving story of the effect of the victory at El Alamein in 1942 - and the military and human aftermath on a Services Hospital in Southern England one year later.

221 p. ; 18 cm

Perry hires a temporary secretary and lives to regret it.

Here are ten suspenseful, serpentine stories of betrayal, blackmail, murder, and revenge... all culminating in shocking twists of fate. Within these pages live a wealth of characters you will not forget... people whose lives become irrevocably trapped in a world of no comebacks, beyond the point of no return--from the manipulators and the manipulated to the ultra-rich capable of buying and selling human lives, to the everyday man maneuvered by circumstances into performing deadly acts of violence.

Sometimes George felt that nothing real had ever happened to him. The world swept on its passionate and catastrophic way and he stood on the edge of it, watching...

Love's Warning Time and tragedy had taken their toll on the beautiful old plantation Melanie remembered from her childhood. Returning to the crumbling mansion to care for her ailing Aunt Addie, Melanie was urged by her cousin Mark not to stay. Aunt Addie's mind, he told her, had snapped. Melanie would not believe that the nightmares haunting her aunt were a sign of insanity, for there were ominous signs that more evil lurked in the great old house than in Aunt Addie's imagination. Nor could Melanie ignore the warnings of the man she was falling in love with. Addie's handsome grandson Cale professes to love her in return. Yet, he, too, begs Melanie to leave the house at once...before it is too late! In spite of terror and in spite of love, she followed her instincts to the last... It took courage for Melanie to return to her old home. The beautiful plantation that had once been a paradise to her is now crumbling and decrepit. Then Melanie's Aunt Addie begins to have haunting nightmares, and suddenly everyone wants Melanie out. Even the handsome Cale, who claims to love her, urges her to leave. But Melanie's suspicions are aroused--she's sure that the horror is not all in her aunt's imagination. And she learns, though perhaps too late...she is right.

The only escape from being a kitchen maid is to get married, but with just one evening off a week, Margaret has no time to lose. Her initial prospects are hardly the stuff of dreams, but then she meets Albert the milkman. Having spent their whole lives serving others, can they start to figure out what they want for themselves?

When a young woman commits suicide, Detective Sergeant Nick Miller follows a hazardous trail to find the powerful man responsible for the girl's fate, only to watch him walk out of court a free man.But the dead girl's father swears to exact justice--with or without the law on his side.

Matthew Scudder Crime Novel #2. "For those who yearn to walk those mean streets, no one provides a more satisfactory stroll than Lawrence Block" (The San Diego Union-Tribune).

he humble town of Brayne is about to be upgraded to a borough. For energetic councilor Julian Perse such elevated status requires proper celebration, namely the organization of a multi-part historical pageant to be held throughout the village. A parade of figures—including Henry VIII with six wives in tow and Edward III—will entertain the crowd in the high street, building to an evening performance of dancers, tumblers, comedians, children’s choir, and selections from The Merry Wives of Windsor at the town (now borough) hall. To pull all these elements together and essentially stage-manage the spectacle, Julian presses into service his aunt, successful fashion writer Kitty Trevelyan-Twigg. Reluctant but unwilling to let her nephew down, Kitty lends her services; first, though, she consults her old Carteret College friend Laura Menzies, who looks on in amused interest. The day arrives and the pageant looks to be a success, despite concerns over early morning rain and, later, a donkey joining the squire’s horse on the field during a stately display of dressage. At the town hall, the jokes of the hired comedy act are not blue but merely stale, the children remain under control, and Falstaff is speedily removed in Windsor’s washing basket. When the actor fails to appear for his second scene, however, Kitty is forced to usher in the night’s next performance. Falstaff reappears by the river, the basket nearby and a fatal knife wound in his side. An agitated Kitty reports to Laura, who in turn tells her employer, Dame Beatrice Bradley. It’s just as well that the aged psychoanalyst is brought in: the actor playing Henry VIII soon disappears, and his costumed body is found—minus the head—in a wooded lane. ​Despite these perceived curses (and against Kitty’s wishes), Julian Perse decides to mount a sequel to the star-crossed pageant, this one much less publicized and without the town’s formal blessing. A re-enactment of an eighteenth century election ends in a modern-day gang fight, and the following morning finds the unfortunate Edward III swinging from the Hangman’s Oak tree. A hunch leads Laura to the discovery of Henry’s head, while Dame Beatrice works with the police to unmask the culprit and put a stop to these historically-themed murders.

Lord Desmond Shayne had gallantly rescued Jessica Court from highwaymen and had made her feel welcome in his home. Now he had asked Jessica's help as he struggled to win the hand of the beautiful Lady Olivia. Jessica knew Olivia to be as heartless, cruel and selfish as she was fair face. Would Jessica serve her friend well by forwarding his cause with another woman who did not love him half so passionately as she did herself?

Jean's catering firm for high ranking executives has really taken off. It seems she, her brother, and sister-in-law are finally on the road to success. Until the power goes out at their latest booking and the company owner turns up in his private bathroom, electrocuted and very, very dead.

He needed her as a nurse, not a woman Benedict van Manfeld was one of the surliest, most unfriendly men Cassandra had ever met. But when she learned he was a brilliant Dutch surgeon who had severely damaged his sight in an accident, her attitude changed. Benedict asked Cassandra to go to Holland with him as his nurse. She agreed…and soon began to feel something deeper than sympathy for him. But with his close friend Paula nearby, why should he even notice Cassandra?

Effie Martin was humiliated! Lawrence Earle, the football hero, was coming back from college, and all the girls were planning a big picnic for him. She had been planning to go, too--until she overheard the girls saying they didn't want her along because she was too rough, too much of a tomboy. Well, she'd show them. She could be as much a lady as any of them! Or could she? Almost immediately Effie found herself caught in a struggle between "acting ladylike" and being herself--a struggle she was afraid of losing. Then suddenly, wonderfully, an act of heroism throws Effie into an extraordinary friendship with the football star himself! And she begins the thrilling journey of becoming a woman who understands strong faith and lasting love.

Stacy and Cord Harris had the perfect marriage. Their love, they thought, would see them through any troubles that came along. But when Cord is seriously injured in a catastrophic crash, he forgets that he and Stacy vowed to love each other always. Believing he is too disfigured to deserve Stacy's love, will he look for affection in the arms of his attractive nurse? Stacy is determined to defeat Paula Hanson in the battle for her husband's love.

It's a dream come true. For years Tracy Shaw has kept secret her love for childhood friend Sebastian Lemaire. Tracy was a fine girl and delicate beauty, but she was the village doctor's daughter, and Sebastian was already a very wealth young man, dazzled by fast cars and fast women. Now, incredible as it seems, Sebastian comes home from a whirlwind vacation abroad - and asks Tracy to marry him. But people say he is still intoxicated by a girl named Consuelo, a worldly and sensuous jet-set beauty, who rejected him. Does Sebastian really love Tracy, or he is just on the rebound? How can Tracy be sure of the affections of the man she loves, and make him forget another woman's undeniable glamour? Could she hold her new husband against a rival he once desperately loved? Will Consuelo lure Sebastian away?

Fitzgerald writes a story about the formidable proprietress of "Freddie's, " the Temple Stage School, which provides child actors for London's West End theaters, a promising child actor and his rival, and a man with wicked plans to rescue Freddie's from insolvency.

Beryl Bainbridge sets out to find England by retracing J.B. Priestly's famous English Journey. Using the conventions of great British travel writing, Bainbridge, with the skills of a fine novelist, updates to the present Priestly's classic Depression-era journey to the heart and soul of England.

Jacqueline Thornton was going to have a lot to live up to: first, working at the Bernard Thornton Memorial Hospital at Barryvale and, second, known to everyone as the daughter of her famous father. But the biggest challenge of all was going to be her new chief, the forbidding Meldon Powers.

He was too near -- and not to be trusted. Having Jonathan back in New Zealand was torture for Camilla. Five years had passed since she'd painfully broken their engagement, though she'd kept her knowledge of his dishonesty a secret. No matter how appealing Jonathan was now, she could never forget what he had done. Yet Camilla was swept with a longing for things to be different, that money didn't mean everything to Jonathan--that she could trust the only man she could ever love.

Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly intelligent creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution to her dilemma. And Mrs. Frisby in turn renders them a great service.

By all rights Domine and her brother should have inherited their family’s prosperous business – but for reasons of his own, they found to their dismay, their grandfather had left everything to their unknown cousin Lisel in Peru – a young girl who had spent her life in a convent and knew nothing about business. It was for this reason that the masterful Señor Luis Delgado Aguilar had come over from South America on her behalf, and it was his suggestion that Domine should return with him to meet Lisel and help her to adjust to the situation. But Domine arrived there to find that Lisel was not quite the young innocent she had expected – and that she represented an even greater threat to her peace of mind…

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The story begins unusually with Della vacationing at a beach hotel. Perry has business at a town nearby and stops in. Della tells him an odd story. A lovely young woman has been coming to the same beach every day. She is eating like a horse! Big dinners, extra pies and cakes, you name it. She is obviously trying to gain weight and it is starting to show. What could explain such odd behavior? Della's Aunt Mae knows the young blonde woman, Diane Alder, and soon Perry and Della learn the story. A man named Harrison T. Boring approached her with an odd proposition. He says he is starting up a new line of fashions that will appeal to the average woman, not one who is unnaturally thin, which is the case with most fashion models. (This actually makes sense!) He wants an attractive model to present them. That's why Diane is trying to gain ten pounds. That's odd enough, but even more, he had her sign a binding contract. In exchange for $100 a week for the next two years (a pretty good salary in those days), she owes him half of all monies she earns or comes by in that time from any source. It can be renewed up to four more years at his discretion. He evidently expects to earn a great deal from her modeling and TV appearances, hence the name "blonde bonanza." Perry thinks that there is more here than meets the eye. Later, back in LA, he realizes this is the "missing heir-racket". The stuff about a fashion line is just a red herring. In other words, Boring has figured out that some deceased relative of Diane has left a lot of unclaimed money and via this contract he can get half of it.

The rigidly conservative town of Hexton-on-Weir, where twelve-year residents, such as veterinarian Marcus Kitteredge and his wife Helen, are still regarded as newcomers, sponsors a church fair which becomes the background for murder.

Wealthy, due to the success of her novels, Miss Penelope Shadow, a young woman afraid of everything, makes a daring decision to hire Terry, a young man whom she has discovered at a roadside inn, to be her servant and companion.

Blackmail leads to murder on a yacht and a cash-filled purse on the bottom of the ocean weighted down with a gun.

A love story and a literary mystery - a true story of Daphne du Maurier It is 1957. As Daphne du Maurier wanders alone through her remote mansion on the Cornish coast, she is haunted by thoughts of her failing marriage and the legendary heroine of her most famous novel, Rebecca, who now seems close at hand. Seeking distraction, she becomes fascinated by Branwell, the reprobate brother of the Bronte sisters, and begins a correspondence with the enigmatic scholar Alex Symington in which truth and fiction combine. Meanwhile, in present day London, a lonely young woman struggles with her thesis on du Maurier and the Brontes and finds herself retreating from her distant husband into a fifty-year-old literary mystery...

Lady Francesca de Lisle outrages the Winchester elite when, under the penname of Lady Alethia, she writes a column for the local newspaper describing the antics, rivalries, and peccadilloes of the most prominent social families.

Sei racconti fulminei, finora inediti in Italia, nei quali la fantasia di Leslie Charteris impegna l'estro inesauribile di Simon Templar, alias « Il Santo », in una serie di « operazioni » fra le più imprevedibili della sua carriera. Spavaldo e inafferrabile Robin Hood del ventesimo secolo, « Il Santo » è uno degli eroi più eccentrici e tumultuosi che il moderno romanzo d'azione abbia creato. Le sue rocambolesche avventure da oltre trent'anni tolgono il sonno a poliziotti e malviventi di tutto il mondo e il fiato a innumerevoli lettori di ogni paese • Leslie Charteris, narratore americano, è nato nel 1907. I suoi numerosi romanzi e racconti dedicati alle avventure del Santo, che gli hanno procurato una straordinaria popolarità, sono stati in gran parte trasferiti in film, in commedie radiofoniche e televisive e in racconti a fumetti.

From amazon.com: "Prewar Paris - where buses still sported outside platforms and every neighborhood its own bistro, policemen took time for human problems, and car fumes hadn't yet smothered the smell of chestnut blossoms - serves as the setting for these seventeen stories, featuring Simenon's legendary Jules Maigret."

Her dying mother christened her Destiny, and the lovely, lonely orphan grows up a drudge in a poor parsonage. Until she is fifteen, she has no idea that she is the daughter of Lord Claud, the Earl of Destermere. Then, from his deathbed in Switzerland, her long lost father decreed her his sole heir-to the largest fortune in Queen Anne's empire. Loyal Stephen Godwin, the Earl's secretary, traces her to Bath and carries her away to Richmond where she is caught up in the social whirl. But Lady Mahla Destermere, her beautiful and unscrupulous stepmother, resents her coming. The widow Countess plans to marry Destiny to her own half-brother, the depraved, sadistic Baron Humbert Faramund, who tries to gain control of Destiny's fortune. Suddenly Destiny found herself in a world of magnificent opulence - a world of intrigue and passion beyond her innocent experience - a world in which she would learn to brave the lusts of a dissolute Russian prince or lose her title, her wealth, and Stephen - the one man she loved! As Destiny rises from kitchen drudge to social beauty, will her fate be love or misery?

A frightened and hurt woman appears at the door of an isolated house where she is taken in. Other strangers come looking for her with an aura of violence.

Discovering a mysterious bracelet after moving to Arizona, Charlie Wilde finds that she has developed superhuman abilities and speed and teams up with new friends to discover what is happening to her and how to control her powers.

On an island in the Sea of Cortez, a solitary young woman has a special love and understanding for the sea.

Robin Frayne has been brought up after her parent’s death by her sister and her husband but is very much a poor relation. She lives a boring, stultifying existence in the country, and when she attempts to leave her sisters ill health makes her feel obliged to stay with them but very much in the role of dogsbody. She has a lot to learn about life. All the experience of her eighteen years is no match for smooth-talking philanderer Aubrey Mauldron. Not surprisingly when the handsome young man appears in her life and is interested to her, she falls prey to the first man who offers to 'take her away from all this' and she is persuaded to runaway to Paris. Once there she is persuaded to say the night at a hotel where he books her in as his wife. Following an incident where they meet a friend of Aubrey’s they have a row and Aubrey announces he did not really have any intention of marrying her, Robin leaves him and returns to England as wiser girl. She becomes a companion to a lady she meets. Now less starry-eyed about men in general, she is soon falls in love with the lady's son Christopher, will will be everything that Aubrey is not: unselfish, generous, and honorabily interesting in her. Poor Robin not only feels that she is not able to marry Christopher because she is now his mother's companion but a friend of the family turns out to be the friend of Aubrey’s whom she met in Paris, and to whom she was introduced as Mauldron's wife... But ahead lies tragedy?

Seduction, betrayal, rapture. Lord Esmond Walhurst, fitht Earl of Mornbury and the handsomest man in all England, had renounced his elegantly reckless lifestyle - only to be shattered by a cruel tragedy. Grief-stricken, he resumed his dissolute living and fought a deadly duel before retreating to a monastery to suffer alone. But now Queen Anne urges marriage upon him, and Esmond's thoughts turn to the lovely Magda, whom he has seen just once, but who captured his interest and desire. But beautiful Magda, who was partially disfigured by a childhood riding accident, had grown to an otherwise atractive woman-hood. Her savage stepfather Sir Adam Congrayle tricks young Esmond into marriage with Magda without frist allowing them to meet. The preparations for the match are put in place. But a shocking discovery awaits Esmond on his wedding day... a revelation that will put love to the ultimate test. And the night of the wedding, when Esmond sees Magda for the first time, brings its inevitable crisis... He is England's most charming rogue - she is treachery's pawn. They thought nothing could stand between them - but will her terrible betrayal destroy their love?

Maigret sets out to prove the innocence of a man condemned to death for a brutal murder. As his audacious plan to uncover the truth unfolds, he encounters rich American expatriates, some truly dangerous characters and their hidden motives.