Five Star standard print mystery series

23 Great Detectives of Fiction and Their Best Stories (subtitle)

During World War II, Catharine Cavanaugh, who is trapped in a loveless marriage to a British diplomat, and her lover, American war correspondent Jack Maguire, struggle to keep their love alive as war erupts around them.

Forced into a jail break, a convict desperately plays for time as he tries to find out who to trust and how to save himself.

L'un des meilleurs romans (1934) de l'écrivain. La publicité originelle "Duo ou duel?" vaut encore pour cette histoire d'un couple qui fait naufrage.

K.C. Carlisle and her cousin Kenneth Carlisle both grew up rich. Kenneth is a corporate lawyer in an exclusive Northern California seaside community while K.C. has a storefront office on the seedy side of town. She takes whatever kind of case walks in her door. But trouble appears one day when Francine Boutelle shows up pretending she wants to write an expose of the Carlisle family, including some dirt on K.C.'s late and highly respectable father. Francine has visited most of the family and is willing to keep the family secrets in exchange for cash. When Kenneth is accused of murdering the blackmailer, K.C. is determined to prove his innocence, no matter where the trail of blood and deception leads.

In 1966, Ann Severin was a carefree college student in Italy…until she disappeared without a trace. Six years later, wife and mother Janey Hamilton is targeted by someone threatening to expose the truth about her connection to Ann and the horrible crime she committed. Janey thought she had outrun her past, but her secrets cast a long shadow.