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A young woman becomes sole heir to a huge fortune when her family dies in a yachting accident. When she discover she has a heart condition and only months to live, she has little to live for. Until someone decides to speed up her impending demise…
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Mr. and Mrs. Benson were enjoying their cruise around the world, oblivious to the criminal types around them. After all, as Americans, they had nothing to worry about. Not even in Los Angeles, last stop before the Orient. Or did they?
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The story of two stepbrothers and the $3 million that came between them. It is also in the pure tradition of the inverted detective story: told from two opposing viewpoints, one the murderer's, the other the detective's (in this case, Stuff Driscoll). It's also scrupulously fair to the reader.
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Melissa Tyler, who had just inherited incredible wealth, came to the Harden Detective Agency claiming she needed protection from crank letters and any possible trouble involving her family. This was a vast understatement of the situation as Margot, the poised young woman from Harden's, learned when she returned with Melissa to a languorous South Carolina town. <P> In a town dominated by conservative old families, Mrs. Tyler's husband was unique. A former carnival knife thrower covered with tattoos, he presented a fantastic social problem. To make things more desperate, his daughter – on the verge of a concert debut –jilted one of the town’s favorite sons…and showed marked interest in a handsome, somewhat sinister, newcomer. <P> The situation became literally deadly when the body of a murdered man was found in the driveway of the Tyler home – and what had been scandal grew into horror!
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When a wealthy New Yorker with a young bride is shot in his Manhattan mansion, then a blackmailing valet perishes in Easthampton, only Lt. Valcour can unravel the mystery. <P> "A clever solution…[the] tale has more than usual amount of chipper chatter." – The Saturday Review
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A blackmailer with religious mania and a decayed actor are murdered – one by land and one by sea. Despite the challenges, Lt. Valcour is not daunted by his latest case! <P> "The thrills and polished deducing are there in quantity." – The Saturday Review.
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The strangling of a wealthy woman at an opulent Andirondack estate brings Lt. Valcour to investigate. He knows immediately who committed the crime, but can he prove it? <P> "Good yarn. Valcour has a hard time getting evidence against a peculiarly successful criminal, though he spots the guilty one at the start." – Kirkus <P> "Designedly transparent as mystery, but suspense keeps up to concert pitch all the way." – The Saturday Review
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Disaster at sea! When the yacht «Helsinor» strikes a reef in the Lesser Antilles, the passengers take to a lifeboat. Upon their return to the United States, accusations fly. Did one of the survivors drug the others and pitch the millionaire owner of the yacht, Lawrence Thacker, into shark-infested waters? Lt. Valcour begins an informal investigation. When one of the heirs to the Thacker millions is poisoned, Valcour's investigation becomes official. Of course, the logical thing to do is to gather the survivors aboard the «Helsinor II» and return to the scene of the original wreck…<P> The Lesser Antilles Case is is the 7th Lt. Valcour novel.
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Terror lay heavy on that strange household on the Canadian border – but not until Lt. Valcour of the New York Police arrived did the hand of murder strike. Soundlessly, inexplicably – and then Valcour's strangest, most perilous case began!<P> Valcour Meets Murder is is the 6th Lt. Valcour novel. It includes a preview of #7, The Lesser Antilles Case.
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From the pen of one of America's most talented mystery writers comes a half-dozen fast-paced tales of mayhem and murder on Florida's Gold Coast – the fabulous neon strip that stretches from Fort Lauderdale to Miami. <P> Here, Stuff Driscoll operates out of the Sheriff's Office in Halcyon, a small fictitious resort town about twenty miles north of Miami Beach. He's one of the new breed of police officers – well-read, sophisticated, with a wry, biting sense of humor for any situation. Tough and unconventional on duty or off, Driscoll is well known to both the upper and lower crusts of the glittering crowd that comes South in search of sun, sand, and sin.