THIS--IS MURDER
by Cortland Fitzsimmons and Gerald Adams

A sophisticated, lively crowd of young people from Hollywood's gay throng, aboard a yacht anchored off Catalina for a hilarious party. Murder strikes just as a three-day fog, thick, sinister, impenetrable, shuts down on them--the murderer still on board, the police helpless ashore.

The party is given as a promotion stunt for the arrestingly beautiful young actress who is to be starred in "Blue Lagoon", and includes a brilliant film director, an airplane manufacturer, a publicity agent who stops at nothing, a South American Hindu posing as an Indian rajah, a columnist seeking lurid bits for her scandal sheet--and a mystery story writer.

Young Mallory, the mystery writer, is not a detective, but at least he keeps his head when a wave of fear swoops down in the wake of murder. Delving into the pasts of the motley crowd on board, he is suddenly caught in a web of intrigue, international in scope. Can it be tied with the murder? A racy tale of murder, mystery and foreign entanglement.

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6 x 9 inch
300 pages
$17.95

THE WHISPERING WINDOW

Meet Miss Ethel Thomas! -- the shrewdest spinster-sleuth that ever walked the pages of a mystery story. You’ve seldom encountered as lively a lady of her years (age 75), and it’s a treat to be taken along with her through the solution of what the newspapers called “The Bargain Day Murders.”

Miss Ethel had no sooner entered the doors of the great Doane's Store then things began to happen--pretty dreadful things at that. First Mrs. Briggs, the jewelry buyer, was strangled as she sat in her office. Few people in the vast Sale Day throng were aware of the tragedy; the band continued to play, the crowds surged, the stock boys darted about perspiring, and the "cookoo" signal bells banged almost without cease. But the death of Mrs. Briggs was only a beginning; three more victims were snuffed out that very day.

How to find a murderer in a crowded department store? It was too much for detective Peter Conklin. But not for the indefatigable Miss Ethel.

Trade Paperback:
6 x 9 inch
276 pages
$16.95