Alice Campbell

• 1968
• / Gothic
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Turrets, A Gloomy, Ancient English Manor Filled With Greed, Hatred And The Threat Of Sudden Death. Despite warnings to stay away from Turrets, Avis Marriott accepts the post of companion to an eccentric, Erica Bolles. From the very first, Avis...

• Dec-2012
• / General Fiction
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Alice Campbell (1887-?) was an American mystery novelist associated with the English school of mystery, best know for Juggernaut, which was made into a 1936 Boris Karloff movie. In Murder in Paris, a young American woman finds herself involved in the...

• Apr-2014
• / General Fiction
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Up and up crept the weight. Its touch was cold and scaly; she shuddered at the contact. At the same dreadful moment she realised what the Thing was.Esther Rowe, a Canadian, is on holiday in Cannes. She decides to stay on, and seeks nursing employment...

• Jun-2022
• / Mystery
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Clare-her Clare-was gone.Mystery in Paris! A disappearance as surprising and baffling as if it had been done by magic. A young girl, barely fifteen, beautiful yet shy and under constant protection, disappears in the one moment that is offered. Betwee...

• Jun-2022
• / Mystery
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It was Margaret Fairlamb-still warm, but stone-dead.Margaret Fairlamb, celebrated actress, had been a popular and genuinely loved figure in the world of the theatre. Her death at the hands of an unknown, brutal assailant was a calamity fraught with h...

• Jun-2022
• / Mystery
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"The only thing plain to me is that you're determined to shield that girl-that murderess."Dodo Quarles liked to live fast. The parties in her Paris apartment were events to be remembered. Dodo, not yet twenty-one, could always be relied upon to suppl...

• Jun-2022
• / Mystery
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A shriek rang sharply out only to be chopped in two-exactly as though a hand had been clamped roughly on the screamer's mouth. It was followed by brusque, striding footsteps and the soft closing of a door.It was purely by chance that David Beddoes an...

• Jun-2022
• / Mystery
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"How would you feel if your own flesh-and-blood suddenly developed into a fiend who wants to murder another person you're fond of?"Flying Blind has nothing to do with aviation.The title is used metaphorically to describe a situation in which daily, e...

• Jun-2022
• / Mystery
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Why the warning about water? Or rather why any warning at all?Miss Venables, a rich and kindly old lady, is the recipient of several threatening letters. Her young companion, Sarah MacNeil, wonders who can possibly bear a grudge against her employer,...

• Jun-2022
• / Mystery
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"I may tell you it's a matter of murder."What did Caroline Bundy keep in the alligator bag?Why was the key missing from around the dead woman's neck?Did Caroline Bundy really give the pearl necklace to Natasha, or-?What was the "medicine" that Tilbur...

• Jun-2022
• / Mystery
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"So Jeanne has a lover," she concluded with a touch of amused wonder. "But what a lover!"Somehow the creature had suggested an undertaker.Alone in Paris after arriving from America, Catherine West finds herself swiftly and dangerously involved in the...

• Jun-2022
• / Mystery
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"Her maid found her this morning. She was lying across the bed, strangled."Young Virginia Carew is making a trip to England when she encounters old friend Glenn Hillier-strangely altered from the last time they met. Glenn is besotted with a glamorous...