She Got What She Asked For: Stories of Crime & Detection Volume 12 - Softcover

Ronald, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1899000984 ISBN 13: 9781899000982

Verlag: Moonstone Press, 2025

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'I knew something like this would happen...I told Edward this man looked like murder when he walked in!' Stories of Crime & Detection Volume Twelve contains a novel and a novella.She Got What She Asked For Up-and-coming architect Nick Abott married Claire, a beautiful but avaricious woman. The marriage is an unhappy one and Nick becomes a penniless drunk. He goes to visit Claire to discuss a divorce, but is hit from behind on her doorstep. When Nick awakens inside the apartment, Claire is dead and his fingerprints are on pistol laying beside her body. It is down to an unconventional detective team to prove Nick innocent by fair means or foul. The Lonely Man Actress Deborah Vail is driving from London to Garnock, Scotland to visit a cousin. A flat tyre on a lonely stretch of road leads her to the secluded home of a mysterious artist, Andrew Garvin, a man shunned by a whole community who suspect him of murdering his wife. Deborah rapidly finds herself in a mystery of prejudice and intrigue. JAMES JACK RONALD (1905-1972) was a prolific writer of pulp fiction, mystery stories and dramatic novels. Raised in Glasgow, Ronald moved to Chicago aged seventeen to 'earn his fortune', later returning to the UK to pursue a writing career. His early works were serializations and short stories syndicated in newspapers and magazines around the world. Ronald wrote under a number of pseudonyms, including Michael Crombie, Kirk Wales, Peter Gale, Mark Ellison and Kenneth Streeter among others. Several books were adapted into films, including Murder in the Family (1938), The Witness Vanishes (1939), and The Suspect (1944).

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JAMES JACK RONALD (1905-1972) was a prolific writer of pulp fiction, mystery stories and dramatic novels. Raised in Glasgow, Ronald moved to Chicago aged seventeen to 'earn his fortune', later returning to the UK to pursue a writing career. His early works were serializations and short stories syndicated in newspapers and magazines around the world. Ronald wrote under a number of pseudonyms, including Michael Crombie, Kirk Wales, Peter Gale, Mark Ellison and Kenneth Streeter among others. Several books were adapted into films, including Murder in the Family (1938), The Witness Vanishes (1939), and The Suspect (1944).

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• Verlag: Moonstone Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1899000984
• ISBN 13: 9781899000982
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
• Herausgeber: Verner Chris
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