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Against the background of Washington and the lovely Maryland countryside, a vivid drama of death and intrigue plays out. Its terrified players are high in the social life of the Capitol-men and women who belong to a world that violence and tragedy cannot touch...but somehow did. Justice Frazier is shot down on the terrace of his mansion in sight of the others. The next attempt almost killed-almost. And then a woman is found sitting bolt uprigh...

Magnolias and murder -- live oaks and dead women -- romance and violence -- are what three unsuspecting women find on the Garden Club pilgrimage to glamorous Old Natchez. Expecting to recapture the magic of the Old South, they become involved, instead, in an ancient feud of love and death, where the romantic sins of the past come to life in very modern murder!

The town was dark and heavy with doom. Hate, generations old, flowed through it like a malevolent river. Julie knew the force of that hate... and the violence which had issued from it in the past. It could erupt again, she lived in terror. Ben, the stranger, saw Julie and fell in love. A secret voice warned him to stay away, but he did not. They clung together in the darkness, meanwhile, through the midnight shadows of the town a killer moved ...

Lawrason Hillyard produces virtually the entire output of promethium, a highly sought metal needed to fight World War II. As rich as he is hated by his enemies (including his wife), he is the perfect target for murder. And it's up to Col. Primrose to investigate, with the able assistance of Sgt. York and Mrs. Latham.

IN THE MANSION OF MURDER...A self-made millionaire, whose true story was not fit to print...His beautiful "friend"...His wife, and her friend, a very suspect psychiatrist...And a man from the haunted past, with his father's blood on his hands, and every reason in the world to kill and kill again...

Slowly I turned to face the hall and the doorway. I waited in an agony of suspense. The great house was as silent as an empty grave, with the pulse of time beating eternally against it: tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock...Gradually I relaxed and let my hand drop, until -- I shrieked and turned -- and raised my hand dripping with blood. I stared at it like a maniac, and then at the thing it had touched...

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED -- SOMETHING DEADIt was the wedding of the season. The bride was society's most beautiful darling. The groom was one of the richest men on the Eastern seaboard. To be invited was an honor, to be overlooked was social death. A few eager status seekers tried to sneak in -- but they were all sent away in disgrace.Except for one uninvited guest, with a vital function to perform: MURDER.

In the midst of the spectacular scenery of Yellowstone Park, pretty Cecily Chapman encounters new love -- and a menacing phantom out of the past."Here you'll encounter a grand group of characters...sleuthing that could only be provided by Col. John Primrose and his amusing familiar, Sgt. Phineas T. Buck. Leslie Ford hands you her first big thrill in the second chapter, then keeps the story spinning with...elegant suspense right up to the nabbi...

Hatred in the night...There was little love in the Winthrop clan, not in the mother who ruthlessly dominated it, nor the son who disgraced it, nor the daughter who sullied its name.Certainly it wasn't Cupid who one dark night sent an arrow rippling through a human throat...And now the Winthrops had to desperately seek the murderer in their midst, before that minister of silent death could strike again...

She was a dangerous female, beautiful, cold-blooded, predatory. The people she lived among were the very nicest sort. Yet, strange to say, it was she who was found dead. And she was only the first victim..."A prime mystery...told with Leslie Ford's usual skill." -The New York Times"Exciting." -- The New Statesman"Excellent Leslie Ford at top form." -- New York Herald Tribune

A beautiful blonde with strange eyes -- and stranger schemes...A young redhead in danger of losing the only man she could ever love...a powerful lawyer with something he had to hide, even from himself... Suddenly, all of them were caught up in a series of horrifying murders by a killer who must be living secretly in their midst! "A humdinger...full of eerie atmosphere." -- New York World Telegram

Lovely Faith Yardley's betrothal to a man from the north is abruptly followed by murder -- and more murder. Transformed by terror, quaint and beautiful Williamsburg, Virginia waits for the killer to strike again, and wonders: This time, will it be Faith Yardley herself?"Another of Leslie Ford's ace items in murder and love, full of suspenseful moments and first-rate: sleuthing." --New York World Telegram

This new "Col. Primrose Mystery Novel" might have well been called "The New Mrs. Latham Mystery Novel, " because Mrs. Latham plays almost as important a part in it as the Colonel. The scene is Hawaii, and practically all of the action takes place in and around a house high up on the mountainside above Honolulu. It is the story of a black-sheep American, whose family had lived in Hawaii for generations, but who went to Japan and, sometime after...

A beautiful blonde with something to hide...A youthful and puzzled doctor...A pretty -- and frightened -- teenager...A very rich, very angry young man...Each set out that night, unaware that at least one of them had a bizarre date with death. Once you start, you won't be able to stop reading this irresistible mystery by "that consummate artist LESLIE FORD." (Philadephia Bulletin).