Eve's mother has recently died, then a strange letter arrives hinting at a relationship her mother may had many years ago. A severe climax leaves no happy endings here.
Inspector Perry Trethowan of Scotland Yard goes to Norway with his sister for a convention of Romance writers. Charlie Peace appears near the end. Very good story!
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"Patti Drewe suspected of fiddling welfare payments for her sick husband twelve years ago. Hmmm. Nothing there, surely? welfare in the States is so tiny it wouldn't keep a dog alive. More power to her elbow..."
Merlyn returns after a twenty-year absence to find his relatives are even awfuller than they were. Now someone wants to kill him! Charlie Peace makes inspector.
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She's not so green as she's cabbage-looking.--(pg. 206) She's not as gullible as he looks.
Carlotta Carlyle trys to find who is killing illegal immigrants.
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"The radios Gloria's got in her old Fords can barely catch the AM top-forty stations, the ones that broadcast as twenty million kilohertz." EDITORIAL COMMENT: Huh?? That's a whole lotta hertz!!
Carlotta Carlyle gets a computer and searchs for whoever is beating up taxi drivers..
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"I have an air splint," he said, "left over from a skiing sprain..." "Why didn't my doctor give me one?" I asked... "You in an HMO?" he asked. "Yeah." "Crutches are good enough for the like of you." "Thanks a heap."
Jack is sent off to stay with his aunt and uncle who live in a small town in Iowa by his divorcing parents. Parent who seem rather distant, even forgetting his name. Something oddly magic is going on in Iowa, and Jack seems to be in the middle of it! Read the advance reading copy.