Golden Ball and Other Stories
Is it a gesture of good will or a sinister trap that lures Rupert St. Vincent and his family to magnificent estate? How desperate is Joyce Lambert, a destitute young widow whose only recourse is to marry a man she despises? What unexpected circumstance stirs old loyalties in Theodora Darrell, and...
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Is it a gesture of good will or a sinister trap that lures Rupert St. Vincent and his family to magnificent estate? How desperate is Joyce Lambert, a destitute young widow whose only recourse is to marry a man she despises? What unexpected circumstance stirs old loyalties in Theodora Darrell, and unfaithful wife about to run away with her lover? In this collection of short stories, the answers are as unexpected as they are satisfying. The Queen of Crime takes bizarre romantic entanglements, supernatural visitations, and classic murder to inventive new heights.
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Format: ebook
ASIN: 9780312981693
Publish date: 01-01-1970
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Romance,
Anthologies,
Mystery,
Detective,
Collections,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Short Stories,
Fiction
This wasn't what I was expecting. I think I expected it to be along the lines of The Tuesday Club Murders or Double Sin. Instead, none of Christie's famous detectives showed up, there were a few stories that could only be solved with magic/occult, and several weren't mysteries at all.In the same w...
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