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"A treasure of a mystery novel." — The New York Times Book Review. "A distinguished book." — San Francisco Chronicle "The only time-out for catching your breath in this story of brooding terror is when antic humor cracks the gloom." — The New York Times Did she jump or was she pushed? When Ruth Miller's broken body is retrieved from the pavement below her New York City room, everyone assumes that her seven-story drop was a suicide leap — almost everyone, that is. One of the young department store clerk's customers suspects foul play, hiring detective Mark East to take a close look at the boarding house and its residents. Hope House, a Home for Working Girls, provides a haven for young women who are barely scraping by in the Big Apple. But the sanctuary is haunted by Ruth's sudden departure, and after a second violent death, the lodgers begin eyeing one another with suspicion. As the tension builds, East's investigation receives an unexpected assist from Beulah Pond and Bessy Petty, spinsters whose amateur sleuthing adds comic appeal to this atmospheric and suspenseful whodunit.
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Private Eyes is the complete map to what Raymond Bhandler called "the mean streets," the exciting world of the fictional private eye. It is intended to entertain current PI fans and to make new ones.
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Examines the role of musical figures within 'late modernism', presenting a new understanding of the politics and aesthetics of lateness.
The House, first published in 1947 (along with A Composition for Four Hands in the two-novel compendium Duet of Death), is a gothic mystery narrated by Isobel Stone, a young woman just shy of her 21st birthday. Isobel returns to her family home, a rambling, grotesque mansion, after spending 15 of her 21 years living away in boarding schools. Her father, mentally and physically ill, is found burned to death in his car soon after her return, and Isobel is alone in the house with only her mother and a handful of servants. But a sinister mood infects the household — the servants are terrified, her mother wanders the house late at night, and strange lights are seen in the upper windows when the house is thought to be empty. Hilda Lawrence (1906-1976) was an American author of several Crime Fictions, including Death of a Doll and The Pavilion.