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A collection of short stories by the "Queen of Suspense" features her first published short story, "Stowaway."
In 1974, Clark began writing a novella inspired by the dark side of the New York City fashion world. Now that story, "Death wears a beauty mask," is available for the first time, in this collection short stories full of chills and heart-pounding drama.
Publisher
Ardustry Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Heiress Frederica Dumay has everything to live for, inclusing a gorgeous new husband and half ownership of a multi-million dollar winery. But her happiness is short lived when her business partner's wife is slain. Frederica suspects foul play, but she cannot tell whether the murder was the result of greed, obsession or both. In addition, her old flame, suggests that her seemingly perfect husband is hiding a guilty secret. Now Freddi must find a way...
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Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Thirty real-life accounts of passion gone lethally wrong
Celebrated mystery writer Howard Engel traces the history of the crime of passion through France, England, Canada, and the United States in his first nonfiction book. The story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in England, is explored along with more familiar, modern cases, such as those of O. J. Simpson and Lorena Bobbitt. With each sordid tale, Engel explores the legal codes...
Celebrated mystery writer Howard Engel traces the history of the crime of passion through France, England, Canada, and the United States in his first nonfiction book. The story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in England, is explored along with more familiar, modern cases, such as those of O. J. Simpson and Lorena Bobbitt. With each sordid tale, Engel explores the legal codes...
Series
Mary Higgins Clark collection volume 3
Publisher
Allumination Filmworks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Heiress Frederica Dumay has everything to live for, including a gorgeous new husband and half ownership of a multi-million dollar winery. But her happiness is short lived when her business partner's wife is slain. Frederica suspects foul play, but she cannot tell whether the murder was the result of greed, obsession or both. In addition, her old flame, suggests that her seemingly perfect husband is hiding a guilty secret. Now Freddi must find a way...
11) Crime of passion
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Kathy Ferguson is an extraordinary woman, trapped in a decade that worships the ordinary. She's smart and witty, and an ace at her job. She's an advice columnist at a San Francisco newspaper, with her name on billboards all over town. But Kathy makes a big mistake, she falls in love. After marrying Bill Doyle, a Los Angeles detective, somewhere between the olive dip and the shiny waxed floors, she begins to realize that Bill wants nothing more than...
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Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Imagine The Sopranos, with snakes! The Lizard King is a fascinating account of a father and son family business suspected of smuggling reptiles, and the federal agent who tried to take them down.
When Bryan Christy began to investigate the world of reptile smuggling, he had no idea what he would be in for. In the course of his research, he was bitten between the eyes by a blood python, chased by a mother alligator, and sprayed by a bird-eating tarantula....
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Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Jules Capshaw is trying to keep her cool as Torte gets set to make its transformation from quaint, local confectionary café to royal pastry palace. Meanwhile, Jules's estranged husband Carlos is making a desperate plea for her to come aboard his cruise ship and dazzle everyone with her signature sweets. She may be skeptical about returning to her former nautical life with Carlos but Jules can't resist an all-expense-paid trip, either. If only she...
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Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
In "a solid account of what appears to be a shocking injustice" an award-winning journalist uncovers the bias that led to a woman's conviction for murder (The New York Times).
When a prominent Alabama doctor is brutally killed, his wife and her twin sister are charged with conspiracy to murder. But while her twin was acquitted of the crime, Betty Wilson was charged with killing her husband.
Probing into a trial that deliberated on Betty's promiscuity,...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In the summer of 1932, with the Cubs in the thick of the pennant race, Billy Jurges broke off his relationship with Violet Popovich to focus on baseball. The famously beautiful showgirl took it poorly, marching into his hotel room with a revolver in her purse. Both were wounded in the ensuing struggle, but Jurges refused to press charges. Even without their star shortstop, Chicago made it to the World Series, only to be on the wrong end of Babe Ruth's...
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Publisher
Mango Publishing Group, a division of Mango Media Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Taking it personally. When it comes to strong emotions, people can react in strange and unexpected ways. Whether it's a heart hurt by unrequited love or a lover so passionate they'll stop at nothing to get their way, even the most seemingly mild-mannered soul can suddenly flip, becoming consumed by dark intentions. The Best New True Crime Stories: Crimes of Passion, Obsession & Revenge, like the other books in the popular The Best New True stories...
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