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Ten million dollars to be divided equitably among the departed Grandfather Hunter's remaining family, with a proviso being, in proper legal terms, that the entire ten million dollars was to be held in trust for the exclusive use of Senorita Fogarty her lifetime, and for the lifetime of her pups (Senorita...

''Buy me a drink,'' she said. ''I’m too poor,'' I said. ''I’ll buy you one.'' ''I’m too proud,'' I said. ''In my apartment,'' she said, ''there’s Scotch, rye, bourbon - anything you want!'' ''Anything?'' ''Anything!''

She was too innocent on her honeymoon, when Dave, her love-crazed husband, turned her romantic daydreams into a living nightmare... She was too careless in a Reno gambling club, where as a divorcee hostess she took chances with Cliff, a casino floor man on the make... She was too willing when Tom...

Bill Stuart is vacationing in Florida, collecting shells, when one evening he stumbles upon a beautiful young woman hiding under a fishing pier on a deserted beach. Undaunted by her cock-eyed story, he offers her a lift into town. Valerie agrees if she can drive. When she discovers they are being...

''He’s a cold-blooded murderer behind his badge and we can’t keep him around as town marshal.'' ''You really think Mark has turned killer?'' one of them asked. Rohle, who had appointed himself head of the group, said smoothly, ''This last shooting proves it to me. The marshal gunned...

As in her sensational first offering, Helen Nielsen has again come up with a fast-paced and remarkably readable mystery. It begins when a gorgeous girl makes an incredible proposal, and ends when a would-be fall guy unearths some low schemes in high society—while solving a murder to save his own skin. The action is smooth, tough and colorful all the way.

Intricacy, expertise, substance—all are here in this latest of Helen Nielsen’s absorbing mysteries. “Homicide, by person or persons unknown,” was the judgment of the coroner’s jury—but for Jaime Dodson, brother of the murdered woman, the ordeal was just beginning. There was that...

Danny Ross, kid hitch-hiker trapped by circumstantial evidence . . . Now he was a fugitive, alone and friendless . . . His one ally lay on the seat of the stolen car, the gun he’s ripped from the sheriff’s holster when he escaped. The sight of it brought sweat to his forehead, made him...

Young Marta Cornish was haunted by a heritage of buried scandal and dark desires. Her father—a composer of genius—had died violently and the sinister enigma of his death lingered, poisoning the lives of those who had loved and hated him. Suddenly, past anguish exploded into present terror:...

The melody of death... Down at the edge of Mexican town, where the pavement gives out and the yellow dust drifts ankle deep over the hard packed adobe, a radio is moaning a dreamy beat into the night. It is the kind of music that needs two people, but only one is listening—a long legged blonde...

It was a Tuesday night in November, 1962. Rain fell slow and steady in Manhattan, slanting hard on near-deserted sidewalks and streets pocked by the occasional twin circles of approaching headlamps. Taxis spawned out from Times Square like predatory bugs in search of new feeding grounds, and here...

The filming of an American movie set on location in Greece becomes the stage for a far more sinister production in this unputdownable political suspense. Rich and famous movie directors like Harry Avery don’t ordinarily disappear—especially when on a routine flight in a private plane seeking location...

Barney Amling, president of Pacific Guaranty, disappears. So do a million of the company’s dollars. Ostensibly, he has gone to Mexico City for a monetary conference, but he didn’t arrive and wasn’t expected. His wife calls in the lawyer Simon Drake (Helen Nielsen’s usual and always brilliant...

In a neatly handled story with a fresh setting, Helen Nielsen introduces Larry Willis, star salesman for an American farm equipment company, who earned a trip to Copenhagen for a business convention. With four days free before its opening, he wandered about in a lonely and bewildered state until a...