Red badge mystery

The Rites of Fear Weird shadows danced on the walls of the vast, grotesquely ornate living room where Tara Mornette sat motionless on her throne-like chair. Beside her stood her nephew, handsome, coldly arrogant. In the doorway were the two Oriental servants, their faces barely masking icy contempt. But Carol had eyes only for the man who called himself Malon Thorne. A strange force seemed to come from his body. His words were charged with hypnotic power… …and despite all reason, against her will, Carol felt herself falling under his uncanny spell, helpless before the iron will of this man who, she knew, meant to do her harm…

The lady killer No woman could resist John Markham. Yet an evil fate seemed to await all who became involved with the brilliant, handsome, Presidential advisor. Already a young heiress had been drowned... the marriage of a famous actress wrecked... another woman committed to an asylum... a society queen led to betray her husband... How could John Markham save his name from the rising tide of scandal? And what would happen to the beautiful young girl who staked her life on her love and faith in him?

GIRL ELECTROCUTED Beatrice Comstock closed her eyes but she couldn't shut out the picture of the corpse in the bathtub. Turning her back on the grisly sight, she went to the telephone and dialed a number. “Please come to the Walker penthouse at once. Mrs. Walker is dead…Her radio fell into the bathtub…It was a horrible accident…” But it wasn't an accident. Tony Walker had been murdered. The suspects included everyone from her husband to his first wife, from a millionaire philanthropist to a down-at-the-heels vagrant. The list was almost endless. Anyone who had ever known Tony Walker hated her and was glad that she was dead. If only Jennie had not seen him kissing the beautiful, mysterious wife of her own brother... if only the girl had not been grotesquely slain... if only Jennie had not found herself trapped between the police who suspected her and the killer who stalked her... if only she had not realized she no longer could trust the man she loved... They all said they loved her-then who wanted to kill her? There was Jennie's fiancé, a young millionaire who had everything, including a secret he would pay anything rather than reveal; there was his rival, who refused to let Jennie go as he held her in a tight stranglehold of fear; there was Jennie's own brother, bound to her by blood, and separated by the mysterious evil that was wrecking his life. And shadowing them all was the specter of the girl who had appeared from nowhere to cast her sinister spell-and now seemed to beckon to Jennie to join her in the grave...

"FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE" Lillian was a girl who had everything. She was young, beautiful, wealthy, and to complete her happiness, she had married the perfect man - Robin Masson. Robin came home from Vietnam a hero, handsome, charming, admired by all. It was only after the wedding that Lillian began to suspect that something had terribly changed him, something that was haunting both their lives. But it was too late. Lillian's dreamlike marriage had become a nightmare, as she desperately tried to break free of the circle of terror that was now part of her husband's embrace....

George Gadberry, 'resting actor', receives a mysterious invitation and a proposition that could lead him to enormous riches. Wealthy imbiber, Nicholas Comberford, wants George to impersonate him in order to secure a place in the will of a fabulously affluent great-aunt, who lives in a Cistercian monastery and won't allow any liquor in the place.

Tempted by thoughts of a vacation in an exotic Spanish locale, governess Dinah Haversham comes to the ancient Castle Estillio as the guest of rich scientist Max Hind and his vapid sister, the Contessa Julia Ascoli. But when their entourage arrives at their destination, Dinah is inexplicably spooked. Why would Julia leave her friends and her seaside villa for this desolate place, with only her eccentric brother, two boisterous little nephews, her lover and a handful of servants? Dinah will soon learn that her instincts don't lie. There's the bizarre tower turned into a modern laboratory, a sinister dungeon full of macabre instruments, and the handsome stranger Dinah is afraid to trust. All would become essential to a madman's plan for a self-styled apocalypse . . .

Auch eine zu einem eleganten Alterssitz umgebaute Mühle hat noch etwas Unheimliches. Jedenfalls denkt Cathy Briggs das. Oder liegt es an den fremden Verwandten, die sie reserviert, fast feindselig empfangen? Vor ihrem plötzlichen Tod hat ihre Tante sie zur Alleinerbin eingesetzt, und wenn es um ein Vermögen von fünf Millionen geht, ist ein gewisses Mißtrauen wohl berechtigt. Besonders, denkt Cathy, wenn man eben im Mühlbach einen Toten entdeckt hat... (Verlagstext)