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(0)Anne Morice
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'Poor woman, how she must wish she had never come!'
Prophetic words, if ever I heard any.
The actress Tessa Crichton's cousin Ellen is engaged - but to someone she has known only a fortnight. The man appears rich, presentable and mad about Ellen, but Tessa is worried about the reaction of his former amoureuse, and indeed about that of Ellen's own ex-boyfriend, a bibulous and self-pitying actor.
Plans go ahead for a splendid white wedding, and the...
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'Stabbed?' she repeated, in horror. 'Was he really?'
'I'm afraid so. From behind. He was sitting at his desk.'
The soignée actress Tessa Crichton would rather be shopping and generally luxuriating in the pleasure of being newly married. However, she is soon embroiled in a plot involving an old acquaintance (murdered) and a friend (blackmailed). Being as shrewd as she is mischievous she begins to draw various conclusions, not all of them correct.
Many...
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'He wants to see you, personally. He's Detective Meek, he's from Homicide, and chances are he's come to report a killing.'
Tessa Crichton, actress and unwitting private detective, joins the cast of Host of Pleasures-a hit West End play opening its American run in Washington D.C.
All is not well backstage. Artistic temperament, old hates and new jealousies combine to create an explosive atmosphere among the cast. When one of the actors is found dead,...
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With no sound at all, she pitched forward head first into the punch bowl, scattering canapés and glasses in all directions.
By all accounts, Mike Parsons is a paragon: considerate, loyal and devoted to his awkward wife - rumoured to be an alcoholic. But now he has done a vanishing act. Was he killed - and who would murder such a kind individual anyway?
Rising young actress Tessa Crichton is unwittingly set a real puzzle in investigating the case...
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'I'm assuming that you want to see a murderer caught and getting what he deserves?'
'You bet I do. In fact, I hope he gets worse than he deserves.'
When a young American girl disappears from her flat and usual London haunts, her friends and family aren't frantically worried. She is over twenty-one, of independent spirit - the type who might conceivably vanish in search of greener grass.
But, Sandy Thurloe is also an heiress and a disappearance can...