Susan Yates, distinguished and charming New York fashion designer, was one of the few people on a transatlantic liner who knew that a fabulous figure of New York's glamour trade lay dead behind the closed door of a stateroom. Susan was one of the stream of Americans returning to New York from Europe's war scare, and when Lyle Curtis, assistant district attorney, met her at quarantine, she was very glad that freedom of the port was one of the benefits of his friendship. A tremendous news story about the death of a prominent figure, an unsolved case that reflected no credit on the district...

Susan Yates, fashion designer, was called in by the district attorney's office to give an expert opinion in a murder case. Fingerprint men, photographers, detectives of every status and the assistant D. A. himself were working on the case, but there was one thing about the victim that brought them all up short-why would a fashionable young lady wear a decollete evening gown over long winter underwear? This was the way in which Prunella Parton was dressed when she was found murdered on an incoming ski train, and it was the reason for this peculiar garb that Susan Yates was called on to supply....

Even though Sally Stuart's Aunt Maggie may have been a trial sometimes, what with her endless talk about genealogy, surely no one could have wanted to kill her Yet it's Aunt Maggie whom Sally finds strangled in the back passageway at Wisteria Hall, the stately antebellum mansion outside Roswell, Georgia, where she and her husband, Bill, are holding a house party to celebrate the engagement of beautiful Claire Harper and handsome Bob Dunbar. Things go from bad to worse after Sally stumbles across Aunt Maggie's dead body. Wisteria Hall is cut off from civilization, as a thunderstorm hits, the...

A larky ghost hunt in a historic old cemetery on St Simons Island, Georgia, turns deadly, when, at the stroke of midnight, one of the hunters is viciously stabbed in the back with an antique Spanish dagger from Heron Point, the stately antebellum mansion where owners Beau and Chattie Richmond have been holding one of their celebrated house parties. St. Simons Island is rocked by more murders while plucky young Ann Carroll, Atlanta debutante turned interior decorator and a cousin and guest of Beau's and Chattie's, tries to crack a complex case and catch a fiendish killer. Ann might just find...

During the Golden Age of detective fiction Marian Gallagher Scott (1892-1943) wrote scores of pulp crime stories and five well-received detective novels. Leaving her job as a typist in Topeka, Kansas, Scott took up acting as a circuit Chautauqua performer, appearing with her husband, Earl, on stages across small-town America. In the late 1920s the couple retired from acting and turned to crime fiction as their occupation. With the flair of a natural entertainer Marian Scott in her mystery novels offers readers exciting stories with interesting characters and intriguing puzzles. In Dead Hands...

During the Golden Age of detective fiction Marian Gallagher Scott (1892-1943) wrote scores of pulp crime stories and five well-received detective novels. Leaving her job as a typist in Topeka, Kansas, Scott took up acting as a circuit Chautauqua performer, appearing with her husband, Earl, on stages across small-town America. In the late 1920s the couple retired from acting and turned to crime fiction as their occupation. With the flair of a natural entertainer Marian Scott in her mystery novels offers readers exciting stories with interesting characters and intriguing puzzles. Murder mars a...

The Dartmouth Murders: The Dartmouth Hall clock strikes a "cold, damp six" as student Ken Harris awakens to the ominous sound of muffled rhythmic raps against a dormitory window. Upon rising and looking out the window, Ken finds to his horror that the eerie noise is coming from the two bare feet of his roommate, Byron Coates, whose rain-slicked, pajama-clad body hangs suspended from a rope fire escape. Initially it is believed that Byron committed suicide, but soon it is established that the moody Dartmouth student was the victim of a foul play. As strange events unfold and yet more unnatural...