"How would you like to be a rocket? A stranger for a week, an heiress for a week, then down with the stick and a stranger again."
Imperious, warm-hearted Honoria Maquisten plans to revise her will - but before the papers can be drawn up, she is dead from an overdose of pills. All eyes are on Carey Silence, a penniless orphan who was recently made Honoria's ward. Suspicion becomes evidence, Carey is arrested and her trial is prepared. So begins a classic golden age mystery with many suspects and twists. Who was the 'rocket' referred to? Who was it Honoria really...
"How would you like to be a rocket? A stranger for a week, an heiress for a week, then down with the stick and a stranger again."...
"You told me a lot of things," said James grimly. "Most of them weren't true."
James Elliott, lost in a fog, comes upon a lonely house in the English countryside. The house shows no lights but the front door is ajar. He enters in search of a telephone but instead finds a girl whose white face, eyes wide in a stare of horror and mouth open as if to scream. But instead of screaming, she yells 'run ' At that moment there is the sound of a shot and James feels the wind of a bullet as it goes past. Though he rescues the girl, she cannot - or will not - tell him quite where the...
"You told me a lot of things," said James grimly. "Most of them weren't true."
James Elliott, lost in a fog, comes upon a lonely ho...
"Sylvia had on the wrong stockings for her dress, and her lipstick was all crooked, so I think things are pretty grim."
Lovely, foolish Sylvia Colesborough knew him only as a voice on the telephone. It told her how she could earn the money she had lost at cards. She enlists her reluctant friend, debutante Gay Hardwicke, to help her earn this money, and safeguard her husband's reputation into the bargain. But blackmail turns to murder in this classic country house whodunit, and Gay's young man is soon suspect number one...
And Mr. Zero? Whether he loses or wins, his...
"Sylvia had on the wrong stockings for her dress, and her lipstick was all crooked, so I think things are pretty grim."
Ice is still. Death is still. But no living flesh should be as still as this...
Agent Stephen Enderby, known in Russia as Red Stefan, meets Elizabeth Radin, the lovely widow of a Soviet inventor, just at the moment she is about to throw herself into a river in despair. The Communists have been persecuting her in order to obtain the vital formula her husband devised just before his execution. Stephen prevents her from committing suicide, takes her away with him and tries to escort her out of the country, posing as his wife. But Elizabeth has not told Stephen her deadly...
Ice is still. Death is still. But no living flesh should be as still as this...
Agent Stephen Enderby, known in Russia as Red Stefa...
"I went down to the pool, and he was lying half in and half out of it with his head bleeding and the tide coming in. The water was up to his shoulders."
The marriage between Nan Forsyth and Jervis Weare is a purely business arrangement - to Jervis. But for Nan there is true romance behind it - a romance which began for her in childhood days - and she is content to be considered for the time a scheming adventuress. But, as she soon discovers, both she and Jervis are now the targets of a golden-haired devil and her villainous partner who'll stop at nothing in this story of...
"I went down to the pool, and he was lying half in and half out of it with his head bleeding and the tide coming in. The water was up to his sh...
"You talk of him as if he were alive." "He is alive," said Benbow Smith. "And you think he would do murder?" "I am quite sure that he would do murder, Captain Loddon."
Rose Anne disappeared on the eve of her wedding to Captain Oliver Loddon. Her fiancE received a letter posted from Paris saying she was sorry but there was someone else.
To the police it is quite simple. But Oliver can't believe Rose Anne capable of such a cruel act, and then discovers that her note carries quite another message. Benbow...
"You talk of him as if he were alive." "He is alive," said Benbow Smith. "And you think he would do murd...
Uncannily alike in appearance were the twins, Jim and Jack Laydon. Both, too, loved beautiful Evelyn Prothero. For three mad, ecstatic days early in the Great War, Evelyn had been engaged to Jack. Then the engagement was broken, for reasons the girl chose never to make public. Soon after, she abruptly married Jim, but no one who saw it could ever forget Jack's face during the ceremony. A week later, on the same day, in the same raid, both brothers went missing. Now, ten years later, Evelyn is still a widow grieving - some say for Jack,...
Ten years He had been dead ten years
Uncannily alike in appearance were the twins, Jim and Jack Laydon. Both, too, loved beautifu...
"I hate him worse than I hate snails, and worms, and slugs, and spiders with hairs down their legs..."
Bride-to-be Mally was an unlikely fugitive from the police. It only happened because she became governess to millionaire Sir George Peterson's little girl, Barbara. Barbara hated Pinko, her father's slug-like secretary; and Mally had to agree. But Pinko liked Mally--he wanted her; and if Pinko wants anything he can't have he is apt to be unpleasant. So when, a few days later, the Mogul's priceless diamond was found in Mally's possession, the Slug was delighted. It was his...
"I hate him worse than I hate snails, and worms, and slugs, and spiders with hairs down their legs..."
