A Nightingale mystery in large print

A disturbed sixteen-year-old narrates the events following the death of her mother.

Merelda is a very pretty lady, and she's used that to her advantage in the past. But marriage to an older man is boring now. If only there was a way to get rid of him while keeping his money.

In Skyripper, Tom Kelly must protect a defecting Soviet scientist who has information that will help the United States fend off space alien attack; in Fortress, Tom must protect the U.S. space station from evil aliens and certain Soviet elements.

Murder in the academy

When Trixie Dolan accompanies her friend and rival Evangeline Sinclair to London, she's hoping they'll have a good time. Then a dead body turns up, followed by another one, and the police are suspecting everyone in the house - including Evangeline and Trixie. This is the first of the Evangeline and Trixie books.

Alice Robertson is far too old and frail to navigate successfully the grand staircase of her ancestral home. But when her nephew returns to the house after an evening stroll, he sees that Aunt Alice must have attempted the descent one last time, with tragic results. No one, particularly not the astute Inspector Long, is likely to believe Alice was murdered. After all, who would want the sweet old lady dead? But rumors will fly, and the grapevine says that hidden in the mansion are valuable family heirlooms. Someone has discovered them, recognized their value, and killed to get them...

Publication Date: December 1, 1958 Three of Davis' most endearing and enduring characters return to delight and thrill mystery and suspense fans. This time, Jimmie Jarvis finds himself involved in a threatened paternity suit against a dapper little man named Teddy Adkins, whose wealthy family are old clients of Jarvis' law firm. At the same time, Jasper Tally is embroiled in the investigation into the strangulation of a woman -- crime which appears tied to several other unsolved mysteries. At the center of the two storm fronts, Mrs. Norris, the redoubtable housekeeper, must fend off the attentions of the dapper client and an unseen, sinister threat to her life.

ENGAGED TO A NIGHTMARE When Norda Allison sees her husband-to-be slap his young son, she immediately calls off the wedding. Now she is terrified. Her ex-fiancé has beat up her new boyfriend. Anonymous newspaper clippings are flooding her mailbox--articles graphically depicting what jilted men do to the women who leave them. Then Norda's life takes an even darker turn. It begins with a barking dog, a child's scream, a gunshot, and the discovery of a very dead body--and ends when Norda is arrested, charged with a brutal murder. Now only brilliant courtroom strategist Perry Mason stands between Norda and a sentence of certain death . . .

A Tecumseh Fox mystery

With the Nazis bombing London on a nightly basis, many families sent their children to the comparative safety of the countryside. When the Blitz ended, the families came for their kids, but no one ever came for Simon Thorn. His name appears on no evacuation list, and none of his belongings offer any clues to his origins. Now an adult, Simon is puzzled by an odd sense of familiarity when he walks down certain London streets. He remembers years of screaming nightmares that would terrify his bewildered foster parents. And he resolves to find out where he originally came from, even as everything he uncovers suggests that, really, he doesn’t want to know.

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It was the middle of a sunny May morning when the old man, thin and shabby, suddenly collapsed on the driveway of Captain Merton Heimrich of the New York State police. He was Old Tom, self-appointed handyman for the community of Van Brunt, New York, and someone had shot him. The question was, why would anyone care enough about this harmless eccentric, this roving gardener, to want to kill him? Is there more to Old Tom than a look at his unkempt person and ramshackle living quarters would indicate? As Heimrich starts his investigation the killer coolly sets his sights on a new victim.

Things begin simply enough, with the discovery of a baby left in a pew of Roger Dowling’s church. Against his better judgement, the priest grants the mother’s request that he hide the child for a short time. But when a strange chain of events leads to brutal murder, the peace of Fox River, Illinois, is shattered anew, and it is once again up to Father Dowling to solve a complex and baffling crime. Full of the subtle touches and deft plotting that have brought Ralph McInerny’s mysteries such wide acclaim, The Basket Case marks a distinguished return for the celebrated Father.

Years ago Alden Leeds found a rich vein of gold in the Klondike. Now his greedy relatives fear he's planning to throw his fortune away on a gold-digging spouse, Emily Milicant. So to prevent the two from joining in holy matrimony, they commit their affluent kin to a sanitarium on a trumped-up charge. Then Leeds escapes, only to end up in the company of Emily's blackmailing brother, John, a manufacturer of fixed Dice, rolling bones that always come up seven. But when John is murdered--with Leeds's fingerprints found all over the apartment--Perry Mason must crack a baffling case before his client bumps from the nuthouse to the jailhouse.

> Anne Morice's latest crime novel takes the form of a classical detective story, ingenious, complex and witty. The setting is traditional, a large Victorian rectory in the Thames Valley, but the characters involved and subsequent sinister events are very far from the ordinary or the conventional. >A famous opera singer dies at the age of eighty-two; she has been ill for some time and there would appear to be no reason to suspect that her death is anything other than natural. But her will, signed on the day she died, causes both astonishment and considerable ill-feeling among her family, and then two more deaths occur at the Rectory. >Tessa Price, the actress-narrator of Anne Morice's previous novels, is an old friend of the family and finds herself involved in an investigation of her own while her husband is dealing with a case nearby for Scotland Yard. Tessa's imagination and powers of deduction are as brilliant as ever, but in the end she nevertheless has to acknowledge the more stolid help of a member of the local police.