Leslie Ford
Список книг автора Leslie FordAll for the Love of a Lady: A Col. Primrose Mystery
MONEY – D. J. Durbin had the price of a lavish mansion and a beautiful wife. But he couldn’t buy back his health… or save his life.<P> MYSTERY – Cass Crane came back from the Orient, knowing a little too much about some things… and not nearly enough about others.<P> ROMANCE – Beautiful Courtney Durbin was exciting, dangerous—and a glamorous threat to pretty Molly Crane’s love for Cass.<P> THEN MURDER CAME… to suggest an unholy bond between Courtney and Cass… and Colonel Primrose stepped in to solve a double murder, while Grace Latham kept an eye on Molly – lonely, helpless, and afraid.
Invitation to Murder
Leslie Ford cordially invites you to spend the weekend at a murder-haunted mansion…<P> Escape the workaday world and come to this luxurious Newport, Rhode Island, playground. Watch the idle rich at their games. See a delightful young heiress falling in love. Observe high society’s most fascinating cad in action. See three lovely Paris-garbed ladies play hide-and-seek with a huge inheritance. Attend the lavish Saturday night dance of death… <P> "Some of Mrs. Ford's smoothest writing." –Anthony Boucher, New York Times <P> A charming young heiress – a glittering social affair where death came uninvited…<P> Ford…one of the best mystery writers" –Louisville Courier-Journal<P> "Leslie Ford is an expert at getting a heroine neck-deep in trouble and dragging the reader along." – New York Times
Reno Rendezvous
A frightened girl keeps a fatal appointment in a deadly desert hideaway. <P> Judy was very beautiful, very much in love and very much married to the wrong man. A speedy divorce seemed the only solution to everybody's problems, but little did she imagine that a flying visit to Reno would turn into a terrifying case of murder – with the shadow of a noose dangerously close to her own lovely neck. <P> "Leslie Ford knows how to write mystery novels." – The New York Times <P> "Sizzling!" – Saturday Review <P> "Grade A." – New York Herald Tribune
Ill Met by Moonlight
She was a dangerous female, beautiful, cold-blooded, predatory. The people she lived among were the very nicest sort. Yet, strange to say, it was she who was found dead. And she was only the first victim… <P> She was a dangerous female, beautiful, cold- blooded, predatory. The people she lived among were the very nicest sort. Yet, strange to say, it was she who was found dead. And she was only the first victim . . .<P> “A prime mystery . . . told with Leslie Ford’s usual skill.” —The New York Times<P> "Exciting." – The New Statesman<P> "Excellent Leslie Ford at top form. – New York Herald Tribune
Murder Comes to Eden
The Idyllic life in Eden, Devon County, home of Spig and Molly O'Leary, is suddenly menaced by the spectre of a long-forgotten death and the grim reality of imminent murder. Meanwhile, the march of 'progress' in the form of a new bridge, a super highway, and a real estate boom – complete with rumors that their neighbors are planning to sell part of their land to a gambling syndicate – hangs over everything…
Honolulu Story
This new “Col. Primrose Mystery Novel” might have well been called «The New Mrs. Latham Mystery Novel,» because Mrs. Latham plays almost as important a part in it as the Colonel. The scene is Hawaii, and practically all of the action takes place in and around a house high up on the mountainside above Honolulu. It is the story of a black-sheep American, whose family had lived in Hawaii for generations, but who went to Japan and, sometime after Pearl Harbor, decided to come back and play traitor to his country. <P> Mrs. Latham is present when he makes his first appearance in his family’s house, she is present when his murdered body is discovered – and disposed of – and she is deeply involved in the circumstances that lead up to the second murder, that of a beautiful Hawaiian- American girl who is engaged to marry an American aviator. In fact, Mrs. Latham this time is so much involved that Colonel Primrose accuses her of completely spoiling an air-tight case for him and calls her a nitwit. Shortly after that, for the first time in these stories, he proposes to Mrs. Latham. For the answer, reader, you may write your own ticket! <P> "HONOLULU STORY will be enthusiastically revived by mystery fans who have learned to expect good entertainment from Leslie Ford's novels. In this book the usual excellent performance is turned in by that fictional threesome, Colonel Primrose, special agent in military intelligence, his aide, the intrepid Sgt. Phineas Buck, and likable Grace Latham, socially prominent Washington widow." – The Nebraska State Journal <P> "Miss Ford at her best." – The Hartford Courant
False to Any Man
Shad Holly and Nat Towne are brought together when they are involved with a British patrol in the streets of Boston. Shad, an experienced frontier fighter, and Nat, a young actor, eventually are engaged in dangerous missions during the siege of Boston. Both are among the defenders of Breed's Hill, a name not so well known as nearby Bunker's Hill, thanks to the confusion of British army cartographers.
Date with Death
"A beautiful blonde with something to hide… A youthful and puzzled doctor… A pretty – and frightened – teenager… A very rich, very angry young man…
Each set out that night, unaware that at least one of them had a bizarre date with death. Once you start, you won't be able to stop reading this irresistible mystery by «„that consummate artist LESLIE FORD.“» (Philadephia Bulletin).
""High quality."" – Los Angeles News
""A fast-moving killer-diller."" – New Orleans Times-Picayune
""An exciting combination of mystery and romance."« – Syracuse Herald-American»