Rae Foley

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1948
  • Latest Book:
    September 1977
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Full Series List in Order

John Harland

1 - Girl from Nowhere (Jan-1949)
2 - The Hundredth Door (Jan-1950)
3 - An Ape in Velvet // The Velvet Web (Jan-1951)

Mr. Potter Mysteries

1 - Death and Mr. Potter // The Peacock Is a Bird of Prey (Jan-1955)
2 - The Last Gamble (Jan-1956)
3 - Run for Your Life (Jan-1957)
4 - Where Is Mary Bostwick? // Escape to Fear (Jan-1958)
5 - Dangerous to Me (Jan-1959)
6 - It's Murder, Mr. Potter // Curtain Call (Jan-1961)
7 - Repent at Leisure // The Deadly Noose (Jan-1962)
8 - Back Door to Death // Nightmare Honeymoon (Jan-1963)
9 - Fatal Lady (Jan-1964)
10 - Call It Accident (Jan-1965)
11 - Calculated Risk (Jan-1970)

Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • No Tears for the Dead

    HOUSE OF STRANGERS Constance had felt uneasy from the moment Ballard had taken her as his bride to Hitchcock house, once a proud family mansion, now an inn designed to save what was left of the Hitchcock fortune. This was to be her honeymoon, b...

  • Girl from Nowhere

    John Harland - 1

    GIRL ELECTROCUTED Beatrice Comstock closed her eyes but she couldn't shut out the picture of the corpse in the bathtub. Turning her back on the grisly sight, she went to the telephone and dialed a number. “Please come to the Walker pentho...

  • The Hundredth Door

    John Harland - 2

    Bad Blood Lovely young Meredith McGrath was returning to her famil home--the isolated mansion she had not seen since chilhood. At her side was the handsome cousin who had overcome her reluctance with his love. Waiting were the rest of the family, ...

  • Bones of Contention // The Other Woman

    No Sactuary When she bought the old farm near the tiny rural town of Peaceable Corners, bright and beautiful Kate Wade was seeking a temporary refuge. She was fleeing the memory of the recent tragic death of her husband and the cruel rigors of cit...

  • An Ape in Velvet // The Velvet Web

    John Harland - 3

    Locked away. To an outsider, Hampton Farms Sanitarium looked like a pleasant resort hotel, but beautiful Lynn Reynolds was no outsider. She was a patient in this exclusive and expensive asylum, watched over every moment, forbidden contact with he...

  • Wake the Sleeping Wolf // Don't Kill, My Love

    The Finger of Suspicion Laura and Benton Field began marriage as the perfect couple. She was the beautiful and devoted wife of a handsome and gifted novelist. -- But Benton soon grew strange -- given to bitter and violent moods. His love became ...

  • Dark Intent

    Love Into Dread... It had been years since lovely Lois Fleming had seen the man named Shandy Stowe, years since they had been thrown together in an affair as impossible as it ws unforgettable. -- But now the scene was different, terribly differ...

  • The Man in the Shadow

    Season of Evil It all began for Natalie Garrett as an idyllic vacation at her grandfather's estate near the resort of Beach Haven. Summer was over, the tourists had left, the forest and lake were hers to enjoy undisturbed. But Natalie had n...

  • Death and Mr. Potter // The Peacock Is a Bird of Prey

    Mr. Potter Mysteries - 1

    Silken Snares Freed suddenly from a cloistered existence by the death of a domineering mother, Hiram Potter embarked on a new life filled with excitement, fueled by wealth, and marked with hidden dangers. There was Deborah, his cousin who exert...



  • The Last Gamble

    Mr. Potter Mysteries - 2

    Pretty young Blair Masters badly needed both a job and a fresh direction in life. She saw nothing to lose in accepting a chance to run a New England antique shop - and her blind gamble seemed to pay an early dividend when she met her new employer, Gl...

  • Run for Your Life

    Mr. Potter Mysteries - 3

    Someone Wanted Her to Die But who would want to kill the lovely young heiress? The handsome, irresistibly charming man whom Nora desperately loved, yet hardly knew? The strangely secretive owners of the mountain inn that was rapidly becoming her p...

  • Where Is Mary Bostwick? // Escape to Fear

    Mr. Potter Mysteries - 4

    Flight Into Fear When lovely, wealthy young Jennifer Clay flew from California to New York, she plunged into a world of danger she had never dreamed existed. Her former college roommate, Mary Bostwick, had mysteriously disappeared, leaving behind ...

  • Dangerous to Me

    Mr. Potter Mysteries - 5

    Princess of Perversity Her name was Evelyn, and she was all that was beautiful and evil. Though Evelyn was gone now, her neck broken by a maddened young man, the horror of that murder haunted lovely young Paula Savage, newly come to the isolated...

  • It's Murder, Mr. Potter // Curtain Call

    Mr. Potter Mysteries - 6

    Murder on Cue A personal tragedy had forced the brilliant, beautiful Crystal Young into temporary seclusion at Summit House, away from the theater she adored. But suddenly she was cast in a drama more bizarre, more terrifying than any she had...

  • Repent at Leisure // The Deadly Noose

    Mr. Potter Mysteries - 7

    Lethal Legacy. When wealthy, imperious old Margaret Forrest died, her pretty secretary, Dexter Abbott, was startled to learn that she had inherited the Forrest millions. But Dexter had another legacy as well - the hatred of the young man whose pl...

  • Back Door to Death // Nightmare Honeymoon

    Mr. Potter Mysteries - 8

    Home Sweet Homicide When lovely young Theresa Graham wed Clifford Hardin, she didn't realize she was marrying his family as well. But their honeymoon visit to the Hardin home proved otherwise, and Theresa felt family ties tightening into a strang...

  • Fatal Lady

    Mr. Potter Mysteries - 9

    BEAUTIFUL AND EVIL Janet Grant was a lovely young woman, but she knew she could not compare with her ravishing sister-in-law, Eve. Men were toys in Eve's hands -- among them Janet's brother, who now was imprisoned in a mental asylum, accus...

  • Call It Accident

    Mr. Potter Mysteries - 10

    Love Was Not Enough Winifred needed love more than most people. Her mother was dead, her father was busy piling million upon million, and Winifred was left to grow up the best she could in a world of wealth, privilege, and loneliness. At last W...

  • Suffer a Witch

    “Stranded by a storm at a posh country inn, Elizabeth Boynton meets Gerald Finch and his sister. Gerald is handsome, charming and wealthy enough to devote himself to the study of seventeenth century witchcraft. Just returned from a trip to England,...



  • Scared to Death

    The lady killer No woman could resist John Markham. Yet an evil fate seemed to await all who became involved with the brilliant, handsome, Presidential advisor. Already a young heiress had been drowned...the marriage of a famous actress wrecke...

  • Wild Night

    Victim of Evil Heiress Mary Quarles had not ween her disinherited cousin in years, but she was not surprised to find the beautiful Sonia in trouble. For Sonia's past was marked with heartbreak and scandal. And now, as always, she had turned to Mar...

  • Fear of a Stranger

    In the snowbound farmhouse, Kay's only companion was fear. She had come to Connecticut in answer to a frantic plea from her eccentric old uncle, but now Uncle Paul was dead, murdered, and Kay was being stalked because she alone could identify the kil...

  • The Shelton Conspiracy

    "FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE" Lillian was a girl who had everything. She was young, beautiful, wealthy, and to complete her happiness, she had married the perfect man - Robin Masson. Robin came home from Vietnam a hero, handsome, charming, admired...

  • Malice Domestic

    Ghosts of the past. When lovely actress Sue Wales moved into the big mansion in Connecticut, every lengthening shadow, every ripple of water, every whisper of wind in the giant elms, reminded her of her sister, Paula. Here Paula had come as a bri...

  • Nightmare House

    City of Illusion For some girls, New York could be a vision of glamour. But, lovely, young Norma Milnor soon discovered the naked evil behind the city's dazzling mask. The old Bacon mansion in Greenwich Village, with its long history of violence, ...

  • Calculated Risk

    Mr. Potter Mysteries - 11

    Guy Harding, a successful public relations man, was killed late one night in an automobile accident; his beautiful wife, Sara, injured. Young Sara Harding woke up in a hospital bed to discover that her life was shattered. The car explosion that had t...

  • No Hiding Place

    Legacy of Terror The violent death of beautiful Peg Morrison came as a terrible shock to Judy Wilkins. Peg had been like an old sister to the young and lovely girl, letting Judy share her luxurious Manhattan home, introducing Judy to her sophistic...

  • Girl on a High Wire

    The Legacy When Cathy Briggs came to take possession of Old Mill, the great mansion seemed a vision of elegance from another age. But soon the lovely young heiress learned that the past was a curse in this fear-haunted house. -- Who had slain Ca...

  • Ominous Star

    Cottage of Fear Pretty young Mary Turner could hardly believe that the isolated cottage in Connecticut was really hers. The unexpected legacy was like a dream come true -- but now that dream was turning into a nightmare. Mary had come to the co...



  • This Woman Wanted

    The Bungalow Helen had been running so long...so long...It seemed impossible that a few short months ago she was a happy young bride, married to a man she passionately loved, with a perfect life stretching before her. -- A savage slaying had sh...

  • Sleep Without Morning

    Concert of Evil The first discordant note was struck when pretty young music student Bridget Evans stumbled upon the strangled corpse of her wealthy benefactor, Liz Conway. The theme of terror deepened when no one believed Bridget's story about th...

  • The First Mrs. Winston

    Honeymoon of Horror.... Connie Winston's honeymoon ended almost before it began. As her bridegroom carried her over the threshold of their cottage, the lights flashed on, and a welcoming party shouted congratulations. -- That was the first wron...

  • Reckless Lady

    Out of the Shadow Pretty young Martha Spaulding was used to living in the shadow of her beautiful half-sister Kay. It seemed only natural that Kay should possess the family fortunethat Kay should be the queen and Martha her lady-in-waiting, that K...

  • Trust a Woman?

    Wonderland of Evil Young widow Holly Niven felt as if she were stepping into an enchanted wonderland when she accepted a post as companion to famous beauty Millicent Godent, a ravishing, mysteriously haunted society queen whom Holly was to guard a...

  • The Brownstone House // Murder by Bequest

    FRIENDS TO THE BLOODY END They called themselves the Inseparables. Three young women. One rich. One ambitious. One talented. All so close…until they came together in a brownstone house that only one of them owned…until they fell for a man that...

  • One O'Clock at the Gotham

    WHO WAS THE GROOM? He came out of nowhere to conquer the richest prize of the year, newly-minted heiress Janice Edwards who, even her best friends admitted, was no more fit to handle men that she was to handle money. Only hours after their secret...

  • The Barclay Place

    Maggie Barclay had never been close to her parents, so when, after three years in Europe, she heard they had both died, she received the news with mixed feelings. Determined to seek out her inheritance, she set out for the family home, in company...

  • The Dark Hill

    Each of the three young men in the framed photograph belonging to Allan Drummond was to play a role for good or evil in Kate Forbes’ life. Multimillionaire Fillmore Hatfield III would die, the victim of a brutal, senseless murder only hours after h...

  • Where Helen Lies

    THE SILENT SCREAM There it is again…the nightmare that takes her down endless halls, running, running for her life…the scarred sightless face that stares up at her, only a silent scream from the truth. Who is she? The letter in the tacky st...



  • Put Out the Light

    In spite of her bitterness at years of neglect, Constance Armstrong accepted her rich aunt Natalie's invitation to stay with her. At first she found the luxurious life in the big new England house a pleasant contrast to her struggle in Hollywood to s...

  • Death Do Us Part

  • The Slippery Step

    The handsome young man whose body was found in the Manhattan motel room had been murdered. He registered as Carl Lamb and is wife, but Mrs. Lamb had vanished. His car was gone and so was his billfold, which according to the night clerk had been bulgi...

  • The Girl Who Had Everything

    A Millionaire's Revenge When Mary Ann Rutherford eloped with an unknown antique dealer, all the world wondered. An when the beautiful heiress killed herself three months later, all the world mourned -- and blamed Jimmy, the shy, bewildered hus...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rae Foley has published 43 books.

Rae Foley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Girl Who Had Everything, was published in September 1977.

The first book by Rae Foley, No Tears for the Dead, was published in January 1948.

Yes. Rae Foley has 2 series.
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