Deadly Lady — Joan Dial

WAS SHE ONE WOMAN…OR TWO?

When Madeleine Delaney turned her life over to novelist Lucien Cornell and became his pseudomamma, Penelope Marsh, a whole new world opened for her -- a world of luxury and wealth and fashionable affairs. Madeleine became someone else. One of Lucien's creations. Like his novels.

When she awoke one morning to find a murdered stranger in her bed, Madeline hysterically called Lucien. She knew Lucien would take care of everything the way he had before -- when it happened in London. Lucien convinced her that it was not Madeleine, but, Madge, her other self who was the killer.

Madeleine tried to forget about it -- until she fell in love with Simon Tanning. Suddenly Madeleine was terrified that her new lover would be her next victim…