Author: Julian Symons
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755148347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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Octavius Gaye, founder of a successful magazine empire saw himself as the original ‘plain man’. The truth was rather different. Gaye was an unscrupulous tycoon who surrounded himself with a series of weak-willed puppets that he manipulated. One such was Francie Lake and as the plot unfolds, Symons reveals how and why Francie simply had to die.
Author: Julian Symons
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Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Author: Julian Symons
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755148371
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
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Arthur Brownjohn has never quite got anything right. Take the murder of his wife – a bungled, inferior affair despite his having consulting all the experts in the field of killings, executions and dastardly deeds. Resolving never to repeat the same mistakes, he enlists the help of Major Easonby Mellon – a man who really knows what he’s doing...
Author: Margi Preus
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452944636
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Midwest Book Award Winner — Young Adult Fiction A disturbing call from her great aunts Astrid and Jeannette sends seventeen-year-old Francie far from her new home in New York into a tangle of mysteries. Ditching an audition in a Manhattan theater, Francie travels to a remote lake in the northwoods where her aunts’ neighbors are “dropping like flies” from strange accidents. But are they accidents? On the shores of Enchantment Lake in the woods of northern Minnesota, something ominous is afoot, and as Francie begins to investigate, the mysteries multiply: a poisoned hotdish, a puzzling confession, eerie noises in the bog, and a legendary treasure said to be under enchantment—or is that under Enchantment, as in under the lake? At the center of everything is a suddenly booming business in cabin sales and a road not everyone wants built. To a somewhat reluctant northwoods Nancy Drew, the intrigue proves irresistible, especially when it draws her closer to the mysteries at the heart of her own life. What happened to her father? Who and where is her mother? Who is she, and where does her heart lie—in the bustle of New York City or the deep woods of Minnesota? With its gripping story, romantic spirit, and a sly dash of modern-day trouble (including evil realtors and other invasive species), Enchantment Lake will fascinate readers, providing precisely the charm that Margi Preus’s fans have come to expect.
Author: Julian Symons
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 075514841X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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Crime-writer Charles Applegate decided to set his second novel in a school. Taking a job at one to see was it like ‘from the inside,’ Applegate found he was expected to do more than just people-watch. And when a murder took place, his skills as a detective writer were called upon as well. But real-life crime was to prove very different ...
Author: Julian Symons
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755148436
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Roger and Geoffrey knew each other for years. Roger was the intelligent, good-looking, successful one and Geoffrey was the one everyone picked on. When years of suppressed anger surfaced, Geoffrey took revenge by sleeping with Roger’s wife. Was this enough for all those put-downs? When Roger turned up dead the police certainly didn’t think so.
Author: Julian Symons
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755148363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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The office party was in full swing so no one heard the shot – fired at close range through the back of Lionel Hargreaves. The killer left only one clue – a pair of yellow gloves – but it looked as if he wanted them to be found. Inspector Bland encounters a deadly trail of deception, suspense – and two more dead bodies.
Author: Julian Symons
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755148355
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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The Tell-Tale Heart strips away myths that have grown up around the life of Edgar Allen Poe, providing a fresh assessment of the man and his work. Symons reveals Poe as his contemporaries saw him – a man struggling to make a living and whose life was beset by tragedy, such that he was driven to excessive drinking and unhealthy relationships.
Author: Julian Symons
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755148282
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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When a girl turns up dead in a Mayfair mews, the police write it off as just another murdered prostitute, but Superintendent Manners isn’t quite so sure. He is convinced the key to the crime lies in ‘The Dell’ – an affluent suburban housing estate. And in ‘The Dell’ lives Solomon Grundy...
Author: Julian Symons
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755148223
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
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Anderson was a bored, unhappy sales executive longing for something to liven up his monotonous life. But perhaps he wished too hard because not long later he found his wife lying dead at the bottom of the cellar stairs. An accident of course – so why wouldn’t the police believe him?
