Philadelphia has been gripped by a serial killer dubbed by the media as the Plate Glass Killer. Henry Tyder, an alcoholic, often homeless, and member of a socially prominent family on Philadelphias Main Line, has been arrested at the site of the...
Alida Brookfield, the magazine's owner-publisher, considered the financially exciting possibilities of her readership. There would always be people who couldn't write but wanted to be writers. There would always be people whose personal...
A tale of malicious mayhem--and a most heartwarming Father's Day present--from Jane Haddam's acclaimed series of holiday mysteries. Rumors of a change in Charles van Straadt's will only widen the circle of suspects who would have liked to see the...
When a local Philadelphia radio host known for his incendiary right-wing tirades is arrested for illegal possession of prescription drugs, the incident sets into motion a series of events that leads ultimately to the death of a homeless man. In the...
Kayla Anson, the only surviving child and heir of a multibillionaire venture capitalist, ist he darling of the media, much to her annoyance. So when Bennis Hannaford, staying overnight at Anson's home in Litchfield County, Connecticut, finds Kayla's...
Not even five and a half decades of self-imposed exile on a rocky island off the coast of Maine can erase Tasheba Kent's fame. Her smoldering sexuality on the silver screen is as potent a symbol of movie glamour today as it was in her silent-film...
"Cavanaugh Street is a mostly quiet Armenian neighborhood in downtown Philadelphia where nearly everyone knows everyone else and certainly knows their business. But that quiet is destroyed when the Armenian Orthodox church is destroyed by a bomb and...
It's December in Bethlehem, Vermont. Christmas is coming, but there's no deep and dreamless sleep for this little town. Instead, everyone's getting ready to stage the annual Christmas pageant and Nativity play - a weeks-long celebration that brings...
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Following Act of Darkness , this fourth adventure of former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian takes place in two tense days at Independence College, a small but prestigious school situated in rural Pennsylvania. It is nearly Halloween:...
Sheila Dunham is a gossip columnist's dream--she's famous, loud and, to most who meet or see her, deeply offensive. As a result, she's been fired from every job on television she's ever had--first as a serious journalist, then as a personality,...