On a raw, wet, winter's day, as Eloise watches her daughter Deborah's coffin being lowered into the cold ground of the little country churchyard, her over-riding emotions are those of hatred and revenge. To Eloise, Steven appears a cold-blooded murderer, in that by forcing Deborah to agree to an abortion, he has caused her death as surely as if he had killed her with his own hands. Driven by grief and the desire for revenge, Eloise determines she will contrive somehow that Steven shall meet a murderer's rightful end at the hands of the Law.

 

Illusion tells the story of Eloise's ingenious scheming; of how she uses her simple-minded twin sister as, together, they leave their life of self- imposed, strangely old-fashioned seclusion, for the romantic setting of a luxury liner; and of how, on the voyage taking them halfway round the world, strange and entirely unforeseen complications arise, over which Eloise realises she has no control...

 

This spine-chilling mystery is one of the most exciting novels by Frances Keinzley (1922 – 2006), winner of the Literary Award in New Zealand in 1960. Keinzley is more than a talented and intelligent storyteller; she is a subtle psychologist who is able to create believable characters. Ingenious and inventive, with a surprise solution, the book is most cleverly and sensitively worked out. It is both powerful and memorable!

On a raw, wet, winter's day, as Eloise watches her daughter Deborah's coffin being lowered into the cold ground of the little country churchyard, her over-riding emotions are those of hatred and revenge. To Eloise, Steven appears a cold-blooded murderer, in that by forcing Deborah to agree to an abortion, he has caused her death as surely as if he had killed her with his own hands. Driven by grief and the desire for revenge, Eloise determines she will contrive somehow that Steven shall meet a murderer's rightful end at the hands of the Law.

 

Illusion tells the story of Eloise's ingenious scheming; of how she uses her simple-minded twin sister as, together, they leave their life of self- imposed, strangely old-fashioned seclusion, for the romantic setting of a luxury liner; and of how, on the voyage taking them halfway round the world, strange and entirely unforeseen complications arise, over which Eloise realises she has no control...

 

This spine-chilling mystery is one of the most exciting novels by Frances Keinzley (1922 – 2006), winner of the Literary Award in New Zealand in 1960. Keinzley is more than a talented and intelligent storyteller; she is a subtle psychologist who is able to create believable characters. Ingenious and inventive, with a surprise solution, the book is most cleverly and sensitively worked out. It is both powerful and memorable!

On a raw, wet, winter's day, as Eloise watches her daughter Deborah's coffin being lowered into the cold ground of the little country churchyard, her over-riding emotions are those of hatred and revenge. To Eloise, Steven appears a cold-blooded murderer, in that by forcing Deborah to agree to an abortion, he has caused her death as surely as if he had killed her with his own hands. Driven by grief and the desire for revenge, Eloise determines she will contrive somehow that Steven shall meet a murderer's rightful end at the hands of the Law.

 

Illusion tells the story of Eloise's ingenious scheming; of how she uses her simple-minded twin sister as, together, they leave their life of self- imposed, strangely old-fashioned seclusion, for the romantic setting of a luxury liner; and of how, on the voyage taking them halfway round the world, strange and entirely unforeseen complications arise, over which Eloise realises she has no control...

 

This spine-chilling mystery is one of the most exciting novels by Frances Keinzley (1922 – 2006), winner of the Literary Award in New Zealand in 1960. Keinzley is more than a talented and intelligent storyteller; she is a subtle psychologist who is able to create believable characters. Ingenious and inventive, with a surprise solution, the book is most cleverly and sensitively worked out. It is both powerful and memorable!

Chief Inspector Cromwell is spending a fishing vacation in Kent when one of the locals is found dead in the village pond after winning £ 200,000 in Sherwood's Treble Chance. The coroner's jury brings in a verdict of wilful murder and Ironsides, much to his disgust, is instructed to take charge of the investigation. But it isn't until after a second murder, that the whily Cromwell gets ready for the kill...

Chief Inspector Cromwell is spending a fishing vacation in Kent when one of the locals is found dead in the village pond after winning £ 200,000 in Sherwood's Treble Chance. The coroner's jury brings in a verdict of wilful murder and Ironsides, much to his disgust, is instructed to take charge of the investigation. But it isn't until after a second murder, that the whily Cromwell gets ready for the kill...

Chief Inspector Cromwell is spending a fishing vacation in Kent when one of the locals is found dead in the village pond after winning £ 200,000 in Sherwood's Treble Chance. The coroner's jury brings in a verdict of wilful murder and Ironsides, much to his disgust, is instructed to take charge of the investigation. But it isn't until after a second murder, that the whily Cromwell gets ready for the kill...

Murder in the quiet, dignified precincts of the Inner Temple, and Cromwell and Lister quickly follow a trail which leads to the ancestral home of the Earl of Ellsworth. They arrived to find the household in a state of panic... a phantom figure which heralds the death of an Ellsworth heir. A further death is swiftly followed by another attempt as murder...

Murder in the quiet, dignified precincts of the Inner Temple, and Cromwell and Lister quickly follow a trail which leads to the ancestral home of the Earl of Ellsworth. They arrived to find the household in a state of panic... a phantom figure which heralds the death of an Ellsworth heir. A further death is swiftly followed by another attempt as murder...

Murder in the quiet, dignified precincts of the Inner Temple, and Cromwell and Lister quickly follow a trail which leads to the ancestral home of the Earl of Ellsworth. They arrived to find the household in a state of panic... a phantom figure which heralds the death of an Ellsworth heir. A further death is swiftly followed by another attempt as murder...

When Sugar Kane, the boxer turned detective, met his old pal Bobby Hynd at Antrade's place, it never occurred to him that he would be talking over Hynd's case before the week was out, and Kane found himself rapidly caught up in a whirlwind of violence, mystery and vicious murder...

 

The Dead Are Dangerous by John Cassells (a pseudonym of the bestselling Scottish author William Murdoch Duncan; * 18. November 1909 in Glasgow; † 19. April 1975 in Glasgow) was first published in 1966; Apex is publishing a new edition of this classic of crime literature in its ENGLISH CRIME NOVELS series.

When Sugar Kane, the boxer turned detective, met his old pal Bobby Hynd at Antrade's place, it never occurred to him that he would be talking over Hynd's case before the week was out, and Kane found himself rapidly caught up in a whirlwind of violence, mystery and vicious murder...

 

The Dead Are Dangerous by John Cassells (a pseudonym of the bestselling Scottish author William Murdoch Duncan; * 18. November 1909 in Glasgow; † 19. April 1975 in Glasgow) was first published in 1966; Apex is publishing a new edition of this classic of crime literature in its ENGLISH CRIME NOVELS series.

When Sugar Kane, the boxer turned detective, met his old pal Bobby Hynd at Antrade's place, it never occurred to him that he would be talking over Hynd's case before the week was out, and Kane found himself rapidly caught up in a whirlwind of violence, mystery and vicious murder...

 

The Dead Are Dangerous by John Cassells (a pseudonym of the bestselling Scottish author William Murdoch Duncan; * 18. November 1909 in Glasgow; † 19. April 1975 in Glasgow) was first published in 1966; Apex is publishing a new edition of this classic of crime literature in its ENGLISH CRIME NOVELS series.

It was Detective Superintendent Nick Bogardus, on holiday in a prosperous Northern town, who brought in Solo Malcolm to help a private investigator who was finding the case too much for him.

Who was it who had taken the attractive night-club singer from the luxury of the Torch Club to the bleak desolation of Brickett Wood to shoot her dead? This was the problem which confronted Solo Malcolm, the tough, rough and incorruptible private eye, when he made the long journey northward...

 

Death Of A Canary by John Cassells (a pseudonym of the bestselling Scottish author William Murdoch Duncan; * 18. November 1909 in Glasgow; † 19. April 1975 in Glasgow) was first published in 1969; Apex is publishing a new edition of this classic of crime literature in its ENGLISH CRIME NOVELS series.

It was Detective Superintendent Nick Bogardus, on holiday in a prosperous Northern town, who brought in Solo Malcolm to help a private investigator who was finding the case too much for him.

Who was it who had taken the attractive night-club singer from the luxury of the Torch Club to the bleak desolation of Brickett Wood to shoot her dead? This was the problem which confronted Solo Malcolm, the tough, rough and incorruptible private eye, when he made the long journey northward...

 

Death Of A Canary by John Cassells (a pseudonym of the bestselling Scottish author William Murdoch Duncan; * 18. November 1909 in Glasgow; † 19. April 1975 in Glasgow) was first published in 1969; Apex is publishing a new edition of this classic of crime literature in its ENGLISH CRIME NOVELS series.

It was Detective Superintendent Nick Bogardus, on holiday in a prosperous Northern town, who brought in Solo Malcolm to help a private investigator who was finding the case too much for him.

Who was it who had taken the attractive night-club singer from the luxury of the Torch Club to the bleak desolation of Brickett Wood to shoot her dead? This was the problem which confronted Solo Malcolm, the tough, rough and incorruptible private eye, when he made the long journey northward...

 

Death Of A Canary by John Cassells (a pseudonym of the bestselling Scottish author William Murdoch Duncan; * 18. November 1909 in Glasgow; † 19. April 1975 in Glasgow) was first published in 1969; Apex is publishing a new edition of this classic of crime literature in its ENGLISH CRIME NOVELS series.

When Ben Kavanaugh is robbed and murdered, it seems that Private Eye Cliff Dexter, hired by Kavanaugh to trace Laura Gordon, must mark the file case closed. But Dexter's investigations have already carried him to a psychological point of no return. Piece by piece he builds up a fascinating picture of Laura, no looker, but seductive to a wide variety of men, all of whom she dupes and betrays in her hunger for the good life and a stage for her own rare talents...

 

The Big Loser by Elliot Kennedy (a pseudonym of the bestselling British author Lionel Robert Holcombe Godfrey; * 01. January 1932; † 01. January 1980) was first published in 1972; Apex is publishing a new edition of this classic of crime literature in its ENGLISH CRIME NOVELS series.

When Ben Kavanaugh is robbed and murdered, it seems that Private Eye Cliff Dexter, hired by Kavanaugh to trace Laura Gordon, must mark the file case closed. But Dexter's investigations have already carried him to a psychological point of no return. Piece by piece he builds up a fascinating picture of Laura, no looker, but seductive to a wide variety of men, all of whom she dupes and betrays in her hunger for the good life and a stage for her own rare talents...

 

The Big Loser by Elliot Kennedy (a pseudonym of the bestselling British author Lionel Robert Holcombe Godfrey; * 01. January 1932; † 01. January 1980) was first published in 1972; Apex is publishing a new edition of this classic of crime literature in its ENGLISH CRIME NOVELS series.

When Ben Kavanaugh is robbed and murdered, it seems that Private Eye Cliff Dexter, hired by Kavanaugh to trace Laura Gordon, must mark the file case closed. But Dexter's investigations have already carried him to a psychological point of no return. Piece by piece he builds up a fascinating picture of Laura, no looker, but seductive to a wide variety of men, all of whom she dupes and betrays in her hunger for the good life and a stage for her own rare talents...

 

The Big Loser by Elliot Kennedy (a pseudonym of the bestselling British author Lionel Robert Holcombe Godfrey; * 01. January 1932; † 01. January 1980) was first published in 1972; Apex is publishing a new edition of this classic of crime literature in its ENGLISH CRIME NOVELS series.

Lovely Charity Carew had nothing but awe and reverence for the distinguished poet Martin Revesby. Boldly she wrote him of her admiration, and when he offered her a job as secretary, her delight knew no bounds. Nevertheless, a sense of foreboding shadowed her arrival at Malmaynes, the eerie castle on the grim Cornish coast. Something evil, she was sure, watched and waited. The surly caretaker, perhaps? Or the sinister deaf-mute? Something or someone aroused in her a feeling of danger.

Only her growing love for the poet held her safe as she learned the bloodstained legend of The Beast, a creature long dead who, it was said, refused to die. Suddenly, without warning, the dark tale of violence sprang to life anew, claiming fresh victims, and a chasm of terror stood between Charity and the promise of happiness that had been just within her grasp a short while before. A chasm she could not hope to cross - and live...

 

The Winter Bride by Carola Salisbury is a gothic drama of passion and terror in the shadow of a killer risen from the grave...

Lovely Charity Carew had nothing but awe and reverence for the distinguished poet Martin Revesby. Boldly she wrote him of her admiration, and when he offered her a job as secretary, her delight knew no bounds. Nevertheless, a sense of foreboding shadowed her arrival at Malmaynes, the eerie castle on the grim Cornish coast. Something evil, she was sure, watched and waited. The surly caretaker, perhaps? Or the sinister deaf-mute? Something or someone aroused in her a feeling of danger.

Only her growing love for the poet held her safe as she learned the bloodstained legend of The Beast, a creature long dead who, it was said, refused to die. Suddenly, without warning, the dark tale of violence sprang to life anew, claiming fresh victims, and a chasm of terror stood between Charity and the promise of happiness that had been just within her grasp a short while before. A chasm she could not hope to cross - and live...

 

The Winter Bride by Carola Salisbury is a gothic drama of passion and terror in the shadow of a killer risen from the grave...

Lovely Charity Carew had nothing but awe and reverence for the distinguished poet Martin Revesby. Boldly she wrote him of her admiration, and when he offered her a job as secretary, her delight knew no bounds. Nevertheless, a sense of foreboding shadowed her arrival at Malmaynes, the eerie castle on the grim Cornish coast. Something evil, she was sure, watched and waited. The surly caretaker, perhaps? Or the sinister deaf-mute? Something or someone aroused in her a feeling of danger.

Only her growing love for the poet held her safe as she learned the bloodstained legend of The Beast, a creature long dead who, it was said, refused to die. Suddenly, without warning, the dark tale of violence sprang to life anew, claiming fresh victims, and a chasm of terror stood between Charity and the promise of happiness that had been just within her grasp a short while before. A chasm she could not hope to cross - and live...

 

The Winter Bride by Carola Salisbury is a gothic drama of passion and terror in the shadow of a killer risen from the grave...

The biggest society wedding of the year is scheduled for Chicago’s prestigious Church of the Good Shepherd. The famous bride is movie star Lisa Julian; the groom, a prominent physician. The minister is none other than the Reverend ‘Con’ Randollph, former Rams’ quarterback, esteemed Episcopal priest—and amateur detective.

The lavish marriage ceremony will be the Reverend’s first formal wedding. But the groom isn’t the first lover in the beautiful Lisa’s colorful life. A whole list of jilted suitors have said yes to the glided wedding invitation’s RSVP... and now someone intends to make sure that ‘Till Death do us part’ comes just after the last whispered ‘I do’...

 

»Reverend Randollph capers are fast-paced and fun.«

~Chicago Sun-Times

 

Reverend Randollph And The Avenging Angel by Charles M. Smith (* 1919; † 1986) was first published in 1980; Apex is publishing a new edition of this classic of crime literature in its ENGLISH CRIME NOVELS series.

The biggest society wedding of the year is scheduled for Chicago’s prestigious Church of the Good Shepherd. The famous bride is movie star Lisa Julian; the groom, a prominent physician. The minister is none other than the Reverend ‘Con’ Randollph, former Rams’ quarterback, esteemed Episcopal priest—and amateur detective.

The lavish marriage ceremony will be the Reverend’s first formal wedding. But the groom isn’t the first lover in the beautiful Lisa’s colorful life. A whole list of jilted suitors have said yes to the glided wedding invitation’s RSVP... and now someone intends to make sure that ‘Till Death do us part’ comes just after the last whispered ‘I do’...

 

»Reverend Randollph capers are fast-paced and fun.«

~Chicago Sun-Times

 

Reverend Randollph And The Avenging Angel by Charles M. Smith (* 1919; † 1986) was first published in 1980; Apex is publishing a new edition of this classic of crime literature in its ENGLISH CRIME NOVELS series.

The biggest society wedding of the year is scheduled for Chicago’s prestigious Church of the Good Shepherd. The famous bride is movie star Lisa Julian; the groom, a prominent physician. The minister is none other than the Reverend ‘Con’ Randollph, former Rams’ quarterback, esteemed Episcopal priest—and amateur detective.

The lavish marriage ceremony will be the Reverend’s first formal wedding. But the groom isn’t the first lover in the beautiful Lisa’s colorful life. A whole list of jilted suitors have said yes to the glided wedding invitation’s RSVP... and now someone intends to make sure that ‘Till Death do us part’ comes just after the last whispered ‘I do’...

 

»Reverend Randollph capers are fast-paced and fun.«

~Chicago Sun-Times

 

Reverend Randollph And The Avenging Angel by Charles M. Smith (* 1919; † 1986) was first published in 1980; Apex is publishing a new edition of this classic of crime literature in its ENGLISH CRIME NOVELS series.