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Janet Laing



Janet Laing (1870-1953) was a British author who married a Scottish doctor. She wrote several light novels in the early 1900s.



The Villa Jane



A young woman, Anothera Montmorency, is hired as companion to an elderly woman, but is soon thrust into a dangerous mystery when the old woman's ward, newly married, sends a strange message. Is the newlywed bride the victim of a modern Bluebeard? Or is something else going on? It doesn't help that the new bride's jilted ex is back from South America and getting in the way . . . Anothera takes matters into her own hands and visits the Villa Jane undercover to discover the truth. The Villa Jane (1929) is well-written, with humor, romance, and suspense.


(Due to copyright, this ebook is only available to Canadian readers.)


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The Honeycombers



In attempting to help a young man who can't seem to keep his astral body tethered, Pettigrew and Fairweather inadvertently inspire the formation of a burglary ring.


First published in 1922, this title fits within the 'criminal rogues' category, though it takes its time getting there.


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Ada E. lingo



Ada Lingo (1908-1988) was born in Texas, graduated from the University of Missouri, worked at several newspapers, wrote a detective novel, then went back to school and became a doctor. She established a family practice in Los Angeles, before retiring to the Pacific Northwest.



Murder in Texas



When John Fordman, millionaire oil man and leading citizen of the west Texas town named in his honor, is discovered dead from a bullet wound to his head inside his luxury Isotta-Fraschini limousine during the shooting of the latest local gusher, Joan Shields, society page editor of the Fordman Daily News, deems the shocking slaying a welcome diversion, as she would much rather be spending her time investigating ballistics and bloodstains than chronicling the convivial activities of the good ladies of the Laff-a-Lot Bridge Club. With the not overly bright local sheriff finding himself utterly baffled by this heinous murder in a small town, Joan calls in Dick Fields, her private detective pal from her recent days in New York, to help solve the crime. Joan and Dick soon have on their hands a veritable ten-gallon hatful of suspects, including journalists, town fathers and even a reputed mistress or two. How many more murders will take place in this torrid Texas town before a daring and resourceful killer is brought to justice?​


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Norman Lippincott



Unfortunately, very little is known about Norman Lippincott (1873-1963) other than that he was living in Northfield, NJ, when he published Murder at Glen Athol, and when he died.



Murder at Glen Athol



The Randels of Glen Athol were a strange clan, a group of people torn by inner stress and hatred. The focal point of their trouble was the ruthless, predatory Muriel Randel, a woman with a distorted and warped nature. Within her were those traits which must inevitably lead to an outbreak of violence in the family—an outbreak of sudden death which comes to an end only when Holt penetrates behind the veil of false clues consciously planted to deceive him. After that grotesque dinner party when the two murdered bodies were discovered, it was obvious to Holt that it was an inside job, but he found a family united against him—a family which hindered rather than helped his investigation. In the end he overcame even their opposition and was able to determine why a beautiful wanton had been murdered because a man had carelessly hung his coat on an accessible nail, and to explain what the selection of a Boston debutante’s gown had to do with the solution of the murder of a man and woman in western Pennsylvania.


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