To Keep or Kill

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Автор: Такер Уилсон

Серия: Charles Horne #2

Язык: английский

Год: 1947

Издатель: Rinehart & Company

Город: New York

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Charles Horne, who stuck his neck out to solve the puzzle of the Chinese doll, sticks it out again in Wilson Tucker’s second mystery, TO KEEP OR KILL. In fact, he sticks his whole head out of his office window and becomes one of the victims of a very deadly practical joke.
The jokester was beautiful and redheaded. That’s all Horne knew at the start. But after they went on a joyride he found out that her name was Betty, that she was excessively fond of man-eating dogs, bombs, and knives — and, in her own particular way — deeply attached to him. Her affections, while they wavered slightly, never actually skipped the track, and the only thing that troubled her much was whether Horne was worth more to her alive, or dead.
Of course, it was really Horne’s problem. It was his life that was at stake, a little matter that deeply concerned him. So, with his usual indomitable will and native cunning, he set about first, to keep himself in the land of the living; second, to free himself from the bonds of Betty’s love; and third, to lay a trap to catch a killer.