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  • The Murders at Hillside
    Virginia Rath
    Death strikes in the night, and a weekend house party becomes the scene of baffling crimes . . . This was Virginia Rath’s (1905-1950) first published mystery novel, published in Complete Detective Novel Magazine in 1931. ...
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  • Epitaph for Lydia
    Virginia Rath
    “Dragged reluctantly to an art tea by his pretty wife, Michael Dundas, the famous couturier who indulges a fancy for sleuthing on the side, meets a stranger in one of his own models who seems ill at ease. She is distinctly upset at sight of a picture of the sand dunes and coming out of a faint, mumbles words that puzzle and intrigue Michael. When this same Lydia Courney is murd...
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    24,70 €

  • A Shroud for Rowena
    Virginia Rath
    It has been six years since Rowena Talcott walked out of her San Francisco house and vanished into thin air. Then the scent of jasmine, a voice humming a song, and a shadowy figure in a dark hallway seem to indicate that her ghost is walking. Is it Rowena, herself, come back? Or is someone in the household trying to frighten Christopher Talcott’s fiancée, Anice?One man who migh...
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  • Posted for Murder
    Virginia Rath
    “Emergence of Virginia Rath into a top-ranking place among writers of mystery yarns has for some time been a source of pride among her many friends in this area. Those friends are now given a chance to pursue a murderer in the academic hillsides of Berkeley and a proper chase it is.“Into Berkeley, on a falsely advertised second honeymoon, rides one Ian Maclean, victim of a crue...
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    24,65 €

  • A Dirge for Her
    Virginia Rath
    “Her name was Gertie Malinowki and she hailed from the wrong side of the tracks when she asked Michael Dundas for a job. Voice culture and chi-chi clothes made the original Gertie unrecognizable as movie starlet Greta Mallon when she swept into Michael’s office during an ‘incognito’ trip to San Francisco.“Greta did not mean her expressed desire to ‘get away from it all’ for a f...
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    24,75 €

  • Death Breaks the Ring
    Virginia Rath
    Virginia Rath has, in the character of Michael Dundas and his wife Valerie, created as intriguing a couple as have appeared between the covers of a mystery story since the now historic The Thin Man. And Death Breaks the Ring is another step upward in Mrs. Rath’s steady climb to the top of the mystery field.In this story Valerie’s plaguing and persistent desire to see more and b...
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    24,61 €

  • Murder with a Theme Song
    Virginia Rath
    Murder with a Theme Song is a most notable production by an author whose The Dark Cavalier gained a wide and enthusiastic audience. In this book are included Michael Dundas and Valerie Sheridan of The Dark Cavalier, and Rocky and Eleanor Allen, of the author’s earlier books. Mrs. Rath has handled these four characters in such a skillful manner that no one of them outgrows the r...
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    24,51 €

  • Death of a Lucky Lady
    Virginia Rath
    Michael Dundas, who combines a flair for detective work with amazing success as a couturier, delves into a mystery with roots laid three generations in the past. The Landreth family closet undoubtedly held a skeleton along with the rest of the old things found in it, just as the envelope with the cryptic figures on it carried the motive, method and solution of the lucky lady’s ...
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    24,65 €

  • The Dark Cavalier
    Virginia Rath
    The main action of this mystery occurs in a small apartment house, which has apartments for only six families. Of necessity these people are clearly acquainted, and an epidemic of fear runs through them all as some unknown poison pen writer with an amazing knowledge of the skeletons in all six family closets, begins a steady campaign that neglects no one in the building except ...
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    24,64 €

  • Death at Dayton’s Folly
    Curtis Evans / Virginia Rath
    Alfred Leale, wealthy lumber king, buys an old mountain resort hotel, moving his family there for the winter. Temporary deputy sheriff Rocky Allen arrives on the scene just in time to witness Leale's murder; a snowstorm cuts them off from help, forcing Allen to solve this crime while confronting his feelings about a certain red-haired nurse who might just be a suspect.Death...
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    24,66 €

  • Ferryman, Take Him Across!
    Virginia Rath
    In this book the author of Death at Dayton’s Folly and Murder on the Day of Judgment has done for the small-town high school what Dorothy Sayers did for Oxford’s woman’s college in Gaudy Night.Once again the amiable and homespun Rocky Allan, aided and abetted by his red-haired wife Eleanor, is featured in this tale dealing with the stabbings of a local Don Juan and Circe. The t...
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    24,49 €

  • Murder on the Day of Judgment
    Virginia Rath
    Sapphira Barlow started life as one of Madame Sophie’s girls, but at seventy, after many vicissitudes, she was a revivalist of shadowy reputation. At her Coon Hollow camp in the California mountains she had gathered her Satellites about her to await the end of the world, at 3:45 a.m., Pacific Standard Time, August 26. Into this weird and fanatical group comes Rocky Allan with t...
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    24,70 €

  • The Anger of the Bells
    Virginia Rath
    When Kitty Featherstone-Quinn tired of writing “At Kitty’s Advice to the Lovelorn” she took the money she had saved and bought a resort hotel in Gold Gulch, a “ghost” mining town. Her arrival in the Gulch precipitated an outlay of ghostly manifestations and bell ringing. Convinced that there was a plot to run her out of the neighborhood, she appealed to Rocky Allan, the local s...
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    24,66 €

  • An Excellent Night for Murder
    Virginia Rath
    This fifth case in the career of Rocky Allan, homespun sheriff who has found great favor both with readers and reviewers, opened one rainswept night when Rocky encountered a drenched stranger who asked him the way to Brookdale’s only hotel. The stranger, with a phony English accent, parted from Rocky with the cryptic sentence, “Has it occurred to you, Mr. Allan, that it’s an ex...
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    24,77 €