Download or read book Murder Mistress written by Robert Colby and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En route to Miami, Scott Daniels comes to the aid of a stranded woman whose date stranded her at a road house. He offers to giver her a lift, and she accepts. a lift, but come across the wrecked car of the man who abandonned her. Valerie begged Scott to save her good name by salvaging her suitcase from the wreck before the cops could find it. But no sooner had he done so, then he learned that instead of being filled with pink unmentionables, it was loaded with green negotiables - hundreds of thousands of them. Curiosity being stronger than caution, Scott kept his eye on Valerie after dropping her off in Miami. And thus found himself the only element remaining between a gang of ruthless criminals and the perfect crime.A Wildside Crime Classic by the author of The Star Trap and The Captain Must Die! "Bob Colby was more than just a 'one-hit wonder.' He wrote several other respected novels in the 1950s and '60s, including The Deadly Desire and The Secret of the Second Door (both Gold Medal, 1959) and dozens of short stories for Alfred Hitchcock and Mike Shayne... Do me a favor: hunt down one of his novels and give it a try." -- Peter Enfantino "He had a journalist's eye for his times. This was especially true in the novels he set in Hollywood. [The Captain Must Die] is his masterpiece. You will not be disappointed." -- Ed Gorman

Download or read book Deadly Mistress written by Michael Fleeman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LOVE GONE BAD. MURDER GONE WRONG. West Coast doctor Kenneth Stahl would do anything to free himself from his wife Carolyn. Then Adriana Vasco—Kenneth's former receptionist and mistress of nine years—obliged by introducing him to ex-con Dennis Earl Godley. The deal was set. Godley would murder Carolyn for thirty-thousand dollars. On the day after her 44th birthday, the trusting victim was lured to a lonely stretch of road. The deadly rendezvous took a shocking turn. Not only was Carolyn gunned down with a .357 Magnum, but Kenneth would also be killed. The hit man's getaway driver was the other woman, Adriana Vasco. In a sensational trial, a tangled web of lies, sex, and betrayal unfolded as Adriana and Dennis turned against each other...and Michael Fleeman tells the whole shocking story in his true crime book Deadly Mistress.

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Download or read book Dead But Not Forgotten written by Amber Hunt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara and Michael ran a Detroit-area comic book shop, where Renee Kotula was an employee—and Michael's lover. Their torrid affair took a shocking turn when one night Barbara was found dead at the shop, a bullet through her skull. Did Michael kill his wife so that he could collect her life insurance policy...and run off with Renee? With no weapon or witnesses, the police weren't able to arrest Michael...until, eighteen years later, a new district attorney reopened the case and found overlooked evidence that placed him at the scene of the crime. Michael was finally arrested. But after a jury found him guilty of murder, the judge overturned his case. Why? As Michael awaits a second trial, many are left to wonder if justice will ever be served for the woman who is DEAD BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.

Download or read book Mistress of the Art of Death written by Ariana Franklin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a "vibrant medieval mystery...[it] outdoes the competition." In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate a series of gruesome murders that has wrongly implicated the Jewish population, yielding even more tragic results. As Adelia's investigation takes her behind the closed doors of the country's churches, the killer prepares to strike again.

Download or read book Love and Madness written by Martin Levy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-12-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a spring evening in 1779, as she emerged from London's Covent Garden Theatre, a beautiful young woman was shot in the head at point-blank range by a man in a black suit. The brutal murder was even more shocking because of the victim's identity -- she was Martha Ray, live-in mistress to the Earl of Sandwich and devotee of the arts. The man accused of her murder was none other than James Hackman, a respected Anglican minister and Ray's former lover. The aftermath of the crime created an uproar in London high society, as aristocrats debated Hackman's motives. Had he intended to commit suicide, as he later claimed, but, in a moment of weakness, turned his gun on Ray instead? This riveting tale of a crime of passion re-creates the slaying and the clergyman's trial, which was the unrivaled media sensation of its time.

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Download or read book Mistress written by James Patterson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an action-packed political thriller full of secrets, lies and a deadly conspiracy. How well can you ever really know someone? As Ben Casper watches his best friend plummet from her sixth-floor apartment balcony, he realises his life is about to change. Diana had no reason to kill herself, she had to have been pushed. Diana worked for the CIA, so the investigation into her death is kept tightly under wraps. But Ben is a political journalist, and can feel that something isn’t right. Ben starts investigating for himself and soon discovers Diana was leading a double life he knew nothing about. But when more people involved die in questionable circumstances, it’s clear that someone doesn’t want the truth to be uncovered. And unless Ben drops his investigation, he could be next...

Download or read book The Falling Girl written by Thomas Fincham and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dillon Scott is found dead in his home. Scott is a famous actor who has starred in some of the biggest movies in Hollywood. Detective Dana Fisher is called in to investigate Scott's death. She is without her partner, Detective Greg Holt, who is on leave after the tragic loss of his nephew.Private Investigator Lee Callaway is struggling to find work and takes any case just to pay the bills. Callaway is surprised when his mentor, Jimmy Keith, arrives in Milton. Becky Miller is hiding a secret that could be devastating to someone close to her.When Jimmy is charged of a crime Callaway will stop at nothing to save him.

Download or read book A Deadly Affair written by Agatha Christie and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[We] can’t get enough of Christie’s plush and murderous thrills.” —Entertainment Weekly From the Queen of Mystery—this all-new collection of stories about love gone horribly wrong will get your heart racing. Love can propel us to our greatest heights . . . and darkest depths. In this new compendium of Agatha Christie short stories, witness the dark side of love—crimes of passion, games of the heart, and deadly deceits. This pulse-pounding compendium features beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, master of charades Parker Pyne, the enigmatic Harley Quin, and the adventurous Tommy and Tuppence, all at the ready to solve tantalizing mysteries. In “The Face of Helen,” a night at the Royal Opera could reach a fatal crescendo for a woman caught in a dicey love triangle; “Finessing the King” delivers a curious ad in the personals that could mask sinister intentions; who’s in danger of getting stung in “Wasps’ Nest” depends on rounding up suspects and solving a murder—before it even happens. These are just a few of the tales in this collection featuring essential reading that Christie fans old and new will simply love to death.

Download or read book Mistress Murder written by Bernard Knight and published by Accent Press. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic murder mystery by acclaimed author Bernard Knight. When a beautiful woman is found dead in a wrecked car, it’s assumed that she simply lost control and crashed while drunk – a sad but not unfamiliar story. Soon, though, a series of events makes the police re-examine the facts of the case. It transpires that the woman, a part-time model, was brutally murdered before her body was placed in the car. But why? The trail leads through the sleazy clubs and backstreets of 1960s Soho, complete with drug dealers, bookies, and gangsters...and a tale of murder and mayhem that has its roots in Germany, many years earlier...

Download or read book Millionaire Mistress Part 3 written by Tiphani Montgomery and published by Life Changing Books. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bad bitch never dies and neither will Chloe’s deceitful ways. Ride with author, Tiphani in her third installment of the Mistress Series as she tells a riveting tale about money, lust, and revenge. Between sexin' any man who can help her achieve her over the top goals, and on a crazed path of revenge, Chloe shocks us all with her newfound tricks of the trade. She's come full circle with a new man, new ammo, a fresh mission, and her old mischievous ways. You won't believe what she's got up her sleeve. Chloe somehow regains her strength, and resumes her mission to kill Oshyn once and for all. Everything seems to be going as planned, until Chloe s new man surprises her with a secret that will destroy her forever.

Download or read book Murder of a Mistress written by Henry Kuttner and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-08-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A San Francisco psychoanalyst once again turns amateur sleuth when a playgirl patient is the prime suspect in a prostitute’s murder. Dr. Michael Gray is constantly getting drawn into the lives, and murders, of his troubled clientele. His keen eye for human behavior leads him to meet some of San Francisco’s most memorable denizens—and to forever be in mortal danger. Beverly Bond was the kind of girl men didn’t tell their wives about. She was blond, beautiful, and your friend—for a price. After she’s found with a knife in her chest and her apartment ablaze, four people confessed to her murder. The evidence, meanwhile, points to reckless heiress Eileen Herrick, one of Gray’s patients, who phoned Gray after fleeing Bond’s apartment building. Believing Herrick is innocent, Gray sets out to solve the killing of a young woman who knew too much about too many men who had too damned much to lose . . . Praise for Henry Kuttner “A neglected master.” —Ray Bradbury “Kuttner is magic.” —Joe R. Lansdale

Download or read book Murder of a Mistress written by Henry Kuttner and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mistress of Murder Hill written by Sylvia Elizabeth Shepherd and published by . This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Changes is a book that is designed to help you explore your thinking about what you have, what you want and what you desire in your relationships and marriages. Its main focus is to show how unstable a relationship can be without God at its core. Love Changes is a book that was motivated through past hurts, past disappointments and past failures. It was created from the desires of the mind, inspired by the needs of the soul and established by the passions of the heart. This type of love can be obtained when you put your all and God into it. "Love Changes will also be available soon in Spanish"

Download or read book The Millionaire s Wife written by Cathy Scott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how, in 1990, wealthy antiques and art dealer George Kogan was killed in cold blood and how it took authorities almost twenty years to uncover the evidence needed to convict his estranged wife, Barbara.

Download or read book The Wife the Maid and the Mistress written by Ariel Lawhon and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and The Frozen River comes a “genuinely surprising whodunit” (USA Today) that tantalizingly reimagines a scandalous murder mystery that rocked the nation. One summer night in 1930, Judge Joseph Crater steps into a New York City cab and is never heard from again. Behind this great man are three women, each with her own tale to tell: Stella, his fashionable wife, the picture of propriety; Maria, their steadfast maid, indebted to the judge; and Ritzi, his showgirl mistress, willing to seize any chance to break out of the chorus line. As the twisted truth emerges, Ariel Lawhon’s wickedly entertaining debut mystery transports us into the smoky jazz clubs, the seedy backstage dressing rooms, and the shadowy streets beneath the Art Deco skyline. Don't miss Ariel Lawhon's new book, The Frozen River!