Leslie Ford

• 1942
• / General Fiction
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A GRACIOUS WAY TO DIE Antigua was the most lavish plantation in the state. Its sculptured gardens were famous; its stately halls were legend; its aristocratic owners were cursed. Secret scandal walked Antigua’s majestic corridors breeding doo...

• Apr-2017
• / Historical Mystery
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What this Mystery is about -- …TWO MURDERS and a NEAR SUICIDE in a Hollywood hotel… The WRONG CORPSE at the foot of a stone stairway… A LETTER which frightens a mother into heading for Hollywood posthaste… A TELEPHONE exuding sinister raspi...

• Apr-2017
• / Historical Mystery
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Escape the workaday world and come to this luxurious Newport, Rhode Island, playground. Watch the idle rich at their games. See a delightful young heiress falling in love. Observe high society’s most fascinating cad in action. See three lovely P...

• Apr-2017
• / Historical Mystery
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She was in a travel agent's dream. Around her: gleaming waters, waving palm trees, soft-scented breezes. Beside her: the man she loved. And poised above her, ready to strike: the deadly hand of murder...

"Leslie Ford is one of the cleverest ...

• Apr-2017
• / Historical Mystery
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"Leslie Ford is one of the cleverest and most original of our mystery novelists." -- New York Times

The mansion at Strawberry Hill rose like a stately white magnolia from a lush green hilltop in Carolina. It was a haven of beauty and grace, ...

• Apr-2017
• / Political Thriller
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The secret ballot for murder...

Politics is a rough business -- and Congressman Hamilton ("Call Me Ham") Vair made it rougher. To reach his goal, he would use anything and anyone -- blackmail, bribery, or a beautiful, not-so-dumb blonde. Eve...

• Apr-2017
• / Historical Mystery
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A living ghost, diessed in black, crashes a Washington cocktail party -- and touches off a chain of violence and murder. Who is the Woman in Black? The answer is a matter of life and death for a pretty young matron, a legendary captain of industry...

• May-2017
• / Historical Mystery
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• May-2018
• / Gothic
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A YOUNG GIRL -- A STRANGE MURDER -- AND THE CLUE OF THE WATCHMAN’S CLOCK “Slowly I turned to face the hall and the doorway. I waited in an agony of suspense. The great house was as silent as an empty grave, with the pulse of time beating...

• Jun-2018
• / Mystery
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IN THE MANSION OF MURDER.... A self-made millionaire, whose true story was not fit to print......His beautiful 'friend'....His wife, and HER friend, a very suspect psychiatrist… And a man from the haunted past, with his father's blood on his ...

• Dec-2018
• / Historical
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In the middle of the night, struggling B actor Glenn Harley gets a hysterical phone call from starlet Nancy Rhymer. She needs Harley to come over to her house immediately. Harley, who always has secretly longed for Nancy Rhymer, jumps out of bed and ...

• Jan-2019
• / Mystery
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"One of the beat mysteries of the year." -- Providence Journal When an innocent young woman finds herself knee-deep in gambling -- and up to her beautiful neck in debts -- there's apt to be trouble.... And trouble is what Janey Blake had plenty of. S...

• Sep-2021
• / Science Fiction
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The second issue of Black Cat Weekly presents more tales of the mysterious and fantastic -- four mystery shorts, a complete mystery novel, four science fiction stories, and a fantasy novel, by some of the greatest writers of all time. Here are:IT’S...

• / Mystery
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CUTTHROAT PLAYERS AT A DEADLY GAME -- CALLED MURDER RICHARD: the thoroughly charming cad who found his aunt’s will enchanting… DAPHNE: the platinum-blonde intruder from the North, wild about Richard -- and about his aunt’s jewels… GA...

• / Mystery
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A few hours before Senator Greer intended to renounce his support of public utilities, he was found murdered in his study. Washington police knew he lived in a maze of political intrigue, surrounded by enemies. They knew, too about lovely Lynn Ash, s...