Leslie Ford
20 кн.
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 Pearl Harbor, decided to come back and play traitor...
| Автор | Leslie Ford |
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… <P> 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 . . .<P> “A prime mystery . . . told with Leslie Ford’s usual skill.”...
| Автор | Leslie Ford |
The Idyllic life in Eden, Devon County, home of Spig and Molly O'Leary, is suddenly menaced by the spectre of a long-forgotten death and the grim reality of imminent murder. Meanwhile, the march of 'progress' in the form of a new bridge, a super highway, and a real estate boom – complete with rumors that their neighbors are planning to sell part of their land to a gambling syndicate – hangs over everything…
| Автор | Leslie Ford |
Leslie Ford cordially invites you to spend the weekend at a murder-haunted mansion…<P> Escape the workaday world and come to this luxurious Newport, Rhode Island, playground. Watch the idle rich at their games. See a delightful young heiress falling in love. Observe high society’s most fascinating cad in action. See three lovely Paris-garbed ladies play hide-and-seek with a huge inheritance. Attend the lavish Saturday night dance of death… <P> "Some of Mrs. Ford's...
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Shad Holly and Nat Towne are brought together when they are involved with a British patrol in the streets of Boston. Shad, an experienced frontier fighter, and Nat, a young actor, eventually are engaged in dangerous missions during the siege of Boston. Both are among the defenders of Breed's Hill, a name not so well known as nearby Bunker's Hill, thanks to the confusion of British army cartographers.
| Автор | Leslie Ford |
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.<P> 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 to wreak his vengeance on them both.
| Автор | Leslie Ford |
"Leslie Ford is one of the cleverest and most original of our mystery novelists." – New York Times <P> The mansion at Strawberry Hill rose like a stately white magnolia from a lush green hilltop in Carolina. It was a haven of beauty and grace, and Jennifer Reid knew it was the only place she would ever love. Then murder entered Strawberry Hill, and a mad killer waited in the shadows for Jennifer and the man she adored… <P> "Neatly handled…deft…recommended." – Saturday...
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A frightened girl keeps a fatal appointment in a deadly desert hideaway. <P> Judy was very beautiful, very much in love and very much married to the wrong man. A speedy divorce seemed the only solution to everybody's problems, but little did she imagine that a flying visit to Reno would turn into a terrifying case of murder – with the shadow of a noose dangerously close to her own lovely neck. <P> "Leslie Ford knows how to write mystery novels." – The New York Times ...
| Автор | Leslie Ford |
"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). ""High quality."" – Los Angeles News ""A fast-moving killer-diller."" – New Orleans...
| Автор | Leslie Ford |
MONEY – D. J. Durbin had the price of a lavish mansion and a beautiful wife. But he couldn’t buy back his health… or save his life.<P> MYSTERY – Cass Crane came back from the Orient, knowing a little too much about some things… and not nearly enough about others.<P> ROMANCE – Beautiful Courtney Durbin was exciting, dangerous—and a glamorous threat to pretty Molly Crane’s love for Cass.<P> THEN MURDER CAME… to suggest an unholy bond between Courtney and Cass… and Colonel...
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The secret ballot for murder…<P> Politics is a rough business – and Congressman Hamilton («Call Me Ham») Vair made it rougher. To reach his goal, he would use anything and anyone – blackmail, bribery, or a beautiful, not-so-dumb blonde. Everyone knew that. But suddenly there was a new and brutal question. Had the Right Honorable Mr. Vair been willing to plunge into murder?<P> "Do not miss WASHINGTON WHISPERS MURDER: It is terrifying and terrific." – Albuquerque Tribune
| Автор | Leslie Ford |
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? <P> "Another of Leslie Ford's ace items in murder and love, full of suspenseful moments and first-rate: sleuthing." –New York World Telegram <P> "Grade A (make it A-plus)… mysterious, rich in...
| Автор | Leslie Ford |
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…<P> 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…
| Автор | Leslie Ford |
IN THE MANSION OF MURDER… <P> A self-made millionaire, whose true story was not fit to print… <P> His beautiful «friend»… <P> His wife, and her friend, a very suspect psychiatrist… <P> 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… <P> "You'll find screams at midnight, multiple slaughter, knockout drops, love and money in generous quantities…much brilliancy." – New...
| Автор | Leslie Ford |
In the middle of the night, struggling B actor Glenn Harley gets a hysterical phone call from starlet Nancy Rhymer. She needs Harley to come over to her house immediately. Harley, who always has secretly longed for Nancy Rhymer, jumps out of bed and drives quickly to her home. Once there, he discovers she has knifed a semi-famous actor to death “in self defense” and needs Harley’s help to clean things up to protect her from scandal. His affection for the actress is too strong to refuse and he...
| Автор | Leslie Ford |
WHO IS THE WOMAN IN BLACK?<P> A living ghost, dressed in black, crashes a Washington cocktail party – and touches off a chain of violence and murder.<P> Who is the Woman in Black? The answer is a matter of life and death for a pretty young matron, a legendary captain of industry, a rich and dazzling hostess – and for lady sleuth Grace Latham and her friend Col. Primrose.<P> "Mrs Latham works wonders with the clues. A major Ford opus." – New York Herald Tribune
| Автор | Leslie Ford |
"One of the beat mysteries of the year." – Providence Journal <P>When an innocent young woman finds herself knee-deep in gambling – and up to her beautiful neck in debts – there's apt to be trouble.... And trouble is what Janey Blake had plenty of. She had written a pile of bad checks. And she was fighting to keep her husband from the arms of another woman.... <P>But other people had trouble too. Doc Wemitz, for example. He was afraid of something. And apparently he had...
| Автор | Leslie Ford |