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The Ka of Gifford Hillary
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Dennis Wheatley |
The _Ka of Gifford Hillary_ is a story concerned with the greatest of all mysteries: what happens after death? With Sir Gifford Hillary and Wing Commander Johnny Norton involved in plans to counter t… |
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To the Devil - a Daughter
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Dennis Wheatley |
Beneath the azure sky of the French Riviera, Christina Mordant looks and behaves like any other attractive girl. But each night as darkness falls, the demon within her betrays its presence.
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The Satanist
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Dennis Wheatley |
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Dark Interval
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Joan Aiken |
NIGHTMARE OF MADNESS
When Caroline awakened, she didn't know where she was. Then a name pricked at her memory. Beaumont- a word from her childhood at the manor. Beaumont- where the hopelessly mad we… |
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The Serpent of Venice
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Christopher Moore |
Venice, a long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy of Britain and France, and widower of the murdered Queen Cordelia: the rascal-… |
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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Bernadette Dunne,Shirley Jackson |
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret
Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a … |
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Tomorrow is mine
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Rebecca James |
By the terms of her grandfather’s will, Eleanor Locke could inherit his enormous fortune only if she married “a man of property” in England. Unless she did so, none of the money could be used in aid … |
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The Judas Kiss
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Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert |
Pippa Ewell had left behind the dark and forbidding Greystone Manor -- also the memories of Conrad, the handsome stranger who had swept her breathlessly into his arms and heart. But Pippa returned to… |
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The turret room
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Charlotte Armstrong |
They said he was an insane killer. But young Edie Thompson did not believe them. She was certain he was innocent, that his strangeness was only a mask for his terror. Was she right to hide him from t… |
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The Golden Unicorn
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Phyllis A. Whitney |
*"Don't try to find out who you are, Courtney. You may uncover horrors you're better off not knowing. Be satisfied with the loving parents who raised you. Let the door stay closed...."*
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Northanger Abbey
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Jane Austen |
Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all… |
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Waiting for Willa
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Dorothy Eden |
Wilhelmina, is the simple signature at the bottom of a letter from Willa Bedford, but to her cousin, Grace Asherton, it has ominous overtones. A nearly forgotten schoolgirl’s game, it is the long-sta… |
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The stone maiden
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Velda Johnston |
The advertisement, complete with a box number, appeared in New York newspapers: "Will anyone having information about an infant abandoned in Manhattan twenty-eight years ago please communicate?"-- Ka… |
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The silver dolphin
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Velda Johnston |
Star-crossed lovers on a bitter voyage to the heart of passion, vengeance . . . and murder!
Fiona Scorched by the shame of a villainous lie, she burns to avenge her broken heart . . . as other wo… |
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The other Karen
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Velda Johnston |
KIRKUS REVIEW
Comfy, feet-up romantic suspense in two postcard settings--rural Maine and wicked old Manhattan. Orphan Catherine Mayhew is barely surviving in the Big Apple, as a walk-on actress, w… |
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A presence in an empty room
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Velda Johnston |
Susan Hapgood, a shy, quiet girl, cannot believe how lucky she is that rich, attractive Martin Summerslee wants to marry her. After a whirlwind courtship, Susan and Martin are married and head toward… |
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