A Rinehart suspense novel

The beautiful redheaded model, Barbara Wentworth, is on trial for murder. All the evidence points to her, but her lawyer Antony Maitland is convinced otherwise. He's certain no one concerned with the case is telling the truth, including his client, but would she sacrifice herself for the sake of a cold-blooded killer?

Two policemen were on trial because of a crime two other men swore they did not commit. Except for the attractive daughter and astrologist mother of one of the policemen, no one wanted to talk about it. What was not being said in the small English town was more than mysterious; it was frightening. Antony Maitland sensed it when he took on the case. Something was going on, something wrong - and those who knew what it was were either lying, not talking, or dead.

Police Chief Ben Orton had a gift for making enemies. When his body was found, head smashed in, the people of his seaside domain were shocked--less because of the gruesome murder than because someone had finally dared to cross Ben Orton.

Patrick Dawlish vs criminal gangs trying to destroy his reputation and his bosses trying to cut his budget.

In the twentieth novel in this series of detective/spy adventures, Milo March investigates the theft of millions of dollars in bonds and securities from a Wall Street brokerage house. Two young ladies who worked there as bonded secretaries are the prime suspects. When one of them turns up dead in the swamps outside Miami, Milo follows a trail that leads him to a rum-soaked race jockey with Syndicate connections. a beautiful but lonely blonde, ferocious Dobermans, and two gun-toting thugs with homicidal tendencies.

From Goodreads: Book #7 in the Dave Brandstetter series In a remote spot outside L.A, a giant truck suddenly plunges in flames off a mountain road at midnight. It looks like an accident, but it isn't. Someone had fastened a bomb under the truck, killing owner-driver, Paul Myers who was insured for $100,000. Crack insurance investigator, Dave Brandsetter is called in to find out what happened and why. Why was Myers hauling in that secluded spot at that hour and for whom? No one wants to answer Dave's questions but then another trucker's death arouses suspicions and a pattern begins to emerge.

Antony Maitland #14 Antony Maitland has two problems to deal with: a friend has asked him to help an actor who is afraid he may be accused of arson, and a juror on Maitland's case has revealed that an attempt has been made to bribe him. When the actor's fears are realized, and the juror also commits suicide, Maitland can't help getting involved. Before the end, Maitland himself is suspected not only of being behind the attempted bribery, but is arrested for murder as well. And his Uncle Nicholas is away in New York, and will not be pleased to come back and find his nephew in the hands of the police.

No one knew that Lord Charlton, one of Britain's wealthiest bachelors, had an heir until the terminally-ill textile magnate summoned his solicitor, Ambrose Quince, to his London townhouse in Belgrave Terrace. There he revealed that he wished to alter his will in favor of his nephew, the son of his black-sheep brother. The boy had been secretly adopted by American parents and taken to live in the United States when his own parents were killed in a bombing raid on London during World War II. His present whereabouts: unknown. When Lord Charlton dies suddenly, he takes with him the secret of Simon Warwick's identity. Two men come forward claiming to be Warwick. Then one turns up dead in Ambrose Quince's office and Henry Tibbett, Chief Superintendent of Scotland Yard, is faced with a double mystery: Who is the murderer? And who is Simon Warwick?

In an unusual departure, Sara Woods takes her latest suspense novel back in time to 1947, when Antony Maitland, recently discharged from the service, is reading law at the farm of a friend in Yorkshire. But the anticipated pastoral quietude is blemished by four seemingly disparate occurrances--the growth of gossip concerning the revival of local witchcraft, rumors of a treasure of gold plate hidden and then lost during the seventeenth-century Civil War, suspicions of lucrative black market activity in the vicinity, and the death of a woman from arsenic poisoning on a nearby farm. Weaving these incidents together against the rustic background of the Yorkshire countryside in what certainly must be Antony Maitland's first big case, Miss Woods tells a fascinating and entertaining story that will surely please her many fans.

This title marks the debut of anthropologist Ellen Christie, who lets an unknown man into her San Francisco apartment. His story of treasure leads them into Chinatown"despite Ellen!s misgivings. From the author of the Death on Demand and the Henrie O series.

From Amazon dot com: "Henry Tibbett is attending an international police conference intended to stop drug-smuggling. The conference is in Switzerland, and it's all a glittering whirl of attractive folks in their best early-1960s attire until one of Henry’s colleagues winds up dead and Henry becomes a suspect."

> When Hubert Denning, the avuncular figure behind a series of spectacular bullion robberies, is released from prison, he goes to stay with his godson, Roger Farrell, and Roger's wife, Meg. Concerned about possible danger with Uncle Hubert around once more, Meg alerts the Farrells' long-time friend, Antony Maitland. Thus, the barrister is not completely unprepared for a midnight call from Roger informing him that a corpse has turned up in the middle of the Farrells' hallway. Despite Roger's avowal of innocence, the police assume he is the prime suspect in the murder. In order to clear Roger's name, Antony must establish who had gained access to the Farrells' house to kill the intruder and who among their guests the previous Sunday might have taken Meg's key, now mysteriously missing, from her handbag. Was it Roger's own sister or brother-in-law, his business partner, his partner's wife, his friend, Victor Barham, the prominent banker, or Barham's daughter Terry? At the same time, the police assert that one million pounds of Hubert Denning's stolen gold is still unaccounted for, and a notorious criminal, improbably named Boney Nelson, is known to be looking for the missing bullion. Maitland's life is repeatedly threatened as he attempts to unravel this particularly hazardous case and recover a fortune in gold.

Antony Maitland #20 Responding to an urgent call from friend and fellow lawyer Vera Lang Horne, Antony Maitland rushes to the town of Chedcombe only to find a client with a strong motive, but no alibi. Jeremy Skelron is accused of murdering his wife, Lydia, who had refused to divorce him. To complicate matters, there is another woman and, bizzarely, the method of Lydia's murder perfectly parallels the famous Wallace case, which Jeremy, a writer, has been researching.

Antony Maitland #17 The death of Cynthia Edison, an attractive young rising star of the London stage, is dismissed as suicide, but her sister Lynn disagrees. On a nationwide broadcast Lynn accuses a prominent television personality, Paul Granville, of deliberate and premeditated murder, and when the not-unexpected slander suit develops she turns to barrister Antony Maitland for help. Reluctantly Antony agrees to argue what seems to be an open-and-shut case, but when the body of Paul Granville is found and the charge against his client is changed to murder, Antony suddenly finds himself involved in a much more complex case than he bargained for. - from inside front cover

Antony Maitland #22 A suicide note prompts Mrs. Antony Maitland to visit mystery writer Emma Anstey for a few days in the small Yorkshire village of Burton Cecil. The picturesque countryside cannot disguise the bizarre and insidious goings-on she finds there -- poison pen letters, a shocking suicide, counterfeit coins, and murder that disrupt the closely knit community with wild rumors and vicious accusations.

Beverly Danziger looked like an expensive, carefully wrapped package from a good but conservative shop. Only her compulsive chatter hinted at the nervousness beneath her cool surface. It was a nervousness out of all proportion to the problem she placed before Kinsey Millhone. Still business was slow, and even a private investigator has bills to pay. Millhone took the job. It looked routine. Elaine Boldt's wrappings were a good deal flashier than her sister's, but they signaled the same thing: The lady had money. According to the manager of her California building, the wealthy widow was last seen draped in her $12,000 lynx coat heading for Boca Raton. According to the manager of her Florida building, she never got there. But someone else had, and she was camping out illegally in Mrs. Boldt's apartment. The job was beginning to seem a bit less routine. It turned tricky when Beverly Danziger ordered Millhone to drop the case, and it took on an ominous quality when Aubrey Danziger surfaced, making all kinds of wild accusations about his wife. But it only became sinister when Millhone learned that just days before Elaine Boldt went missing, her next-door neighbor and bridge partner had been murdered, and the killer was still at large. As Millhone digs deeper into the case, she finds herself in a nightmarish hall of mirrors in which reality is distorted by illusion and nothing--except danger--is quite what it seems.

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Now working freelance, Dave Brandstetter digs into an evangelist's secret life. His father's death left Brandstetter with a hole in his heart and an inheritance in his bank account. The money allowed him to venture out on his own, launching a freelance insurance investigation agency that specializes in suspicious deaths. His first case is potentially explosive, and if he isn't careful, it could be his last. Crusading evangelist Gerald Dawson believes that piety and violence go hand-in-hand. To clean up his local skid row, he has taken to vigilante justice, ransacking pornography shops and intimidating their owners. When Gerald is found with his neck snapped, the police finger smut peddler Lon Tooker for the crime, but Dave disagrees. As he digs into the holy man's nighttime activities, he finds a collection of sins that would make even the devil blush. Skinflick is book five in the Dave Brandstetter Mystery series, which also includes Troublemaker and The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of.