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Mum’s the Word for Murder

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From the back:

THE KILLER PLACED AN AD…

It was incredible-but true. Terror gripped the waiting city. A murderer was publishing ads in the newspaper announcing the exact time of his scheduled killings – and was getting away with it!

For detective Jerry Burke it was a special challenge — because the scornful threats were addressed to him personally.

Three times the killer struck – as he had proclaimed he would. And three times Jerry Burke played the fool … until a startling climax in a Mexican café untangled the unbelievable web of suspense and horror…

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The Time And Place

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They were no longer able to remain teacher and pupil, no longer able to deny the truth of their desires.

The seething story of three people caught up in a web of passion and emotion and sensuality within the walls of an exclusive Parisian finishing school.

Monique… the student, too young and too naïve to realize until too late what drew her to this strangely alluring and exciting older woman.

Irene… the teacher, incapable of denying herself the pleasure and passion that only this lovely and fragile girl was capable of making possible.

Douglas… The intruder, determined to prove that his brand of love could overcome and destroy this girl’s unholy devotion to another woman.

What Each Learned Could Never Be Taught In A Classroom.

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Venus of the Counting House

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When Renee, a pale golden beauty of the French upper middle class, was seduced and found herself pregnant, she accepted the name of Monsieur Saccard in exchange for her personal fortune . . .

But marriage with this unscrupulous financial genius, while it brought unheard of luxuries, left Renee a restless woman, unsatisfied, waiting for one passionate experience that would give meaning to her life… until Maxime came along.

How Renee educated the callow youth in the secret ways of love known only to the sophisticated women of Paris… and how their forbidden union brought them to the brink of catastrophe while Paris herself lay despoiled by the greed of her masters, makes Venus of the Counting House a tremendously absorbing novel. Emile Zola, whose Nana is known to millions, has created in the passion-consumed Renee one of the most memorable women in literature.

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