A marine home on leave from WWII "does a first-class job of detecting" in this tale of puzzling murders and misleading clues (The New York Times). An injured Pat Abbott is back in New Mexico with his wife, Jean, while he recovers from his war wounds, but he's still fighting—to find a killer, or possibly more than one. After one of the couple's friends, Ray, was found dead at the bottom of a canyon, rumors started swirling. He'd recently shocked the town by bringing a wife home from Hollywood—when he was meant to marry local girl Karen. To complicate matters, Karen's distinctive amethyst-colored glasses were found in Ray's abandoned Cadillac convertible. It could have been suicide, but there's reason to suspect both the not-so-grieving widow and poor, spurned Karen. But soon the widow asks Pat's help and he and Jean are drawn into a whirlwind of intrigues, jealousies, and motives in this clever whodunit from the Golden Age of...

A grande dame is buried—but the truth must be unearthed: "The solution of the mystery is neat and satisfactory, and the story makes pleasant reading." —The New York Times Thanks to an illness in the family, Jean Holly is staying in her hometown of Elm Hill, Illinois, for a bit. Her cousin just happens to live next door to Fabian House, home of Mrs. Lake, the richest and most powerful woman in town. When Mrs. Lake dies suddenly, it's ascribed to a known heart condition. But Patrick Abbott, passing through Elm Hill on his way to Washington, becomes suspicious when one death is followed by another—this time, the hanging of the Fabian House maid . . . Praise for the Pat and Jean Abbott Mysteries "Well-plotted and mystifying." —Saturday Review "Amusing and sophisticated." —The Star (London)

About the Author: Frances Crane (1890–1981) was an American author and former writer for the New Yorker. She was invited to leave Nazi Germany in the late 1930s after writing a number of unfavorable articles about Hitler. After settling in Taos, New Mexico, Crane introduced private investigator Pat Abbott and his future wife Jean in her first novel, The Turquoise Shop (1941). The Abbotts investigated crimes in a total of twenty-six volumes, each with a color in the title, with settings around the country and globe.

About the Author: Frances Crane (1890–1981) was an American author and former writer for the New Yorker. She was invited to leave Nazi Germany in the late 1930s after writing a number of unfavorable articles about Hitler. After settling in Taos, New Mexico, Crane introduced private investigator Pat Abbott and his future wife Jean in her first novel, The Turquoise Shop (1941). The Abbotts investigated crimes in a total of twenty-six volumes, each with a color in the title, with settings around the country and globe.

A witty whodunit set in WWII England starring "one of the more interesting married teams of detectives . . . A sort of globetrotting Nick and Nora" (Thrilling Detective). While in England, Pat and Jean Abbott are focused on contributing to the war effort in whatever way they can, but they don't mind taking a weekend to join some other American expats at the country home of advertising man Steve Hayward and his wife. But before much fun can be had, a body is found on the premises. Pat isn't so sure that everyone's impulse to blame the death on a passing drifter or a Nazi spy is the answer—and when the spotlight of suspicion falls on a member of a house party he's sure is innocent, he starts getting reluctantly involved in the case . . . Praise for the Pat and Jean Abbott Mysteries "Lively and exciting." —The New York Times "Well-plotted and mystifying." —Saturday Review

A young couple and their dachshund star in a stylish San Francisco–set Golden Age mystery of "high ingenuity" (The New York Times). Jack Ivers, a man-about-town with a taste for rich women, has been found dead in his bed. What's particularly odd is that the chief suspect, a surgeon's fashionable wife, claims that she spotted thirteen red tulips upon entering the victim's home—that were somehow replaced with thirteen white tulips by the time she departed. It's up to sleuthing spouses Jean and Pat Abbott to dig through the dead man's questionable past and determine in whose heart a murderous passion blossomed . . . "Amusing and sophisticated." —Daily Star "Smooth." —Saturday Review "Brightly-told excitement, with good dressing and good food as you go along." —Lady

About the Author: Frances Crane (1890–1981) was an American author and former writer for the New Yorker. She was invited to leave Nazi Germany in the late 1930s after writing a number of unfavorable articles about Hitler. After settling in Taos, New Mexico, Crane introduced private investigator Pat Abbott and his future wife Jean in her first novel, The Turquoise Shop (1941). The Abbotts investigated crimes in a total of twenty-six volumes, each with a color in the title, with settings around the country and globe.

Did she jump—or was she jumped? A sleuthing couple looks into the disappearance of a young woman on the Golden Gate Bridge . . . An abandoned car on the Golden Gate Bridge usually carries the sad suggestion of suicide. But after Pat and Jean Abbott spot the car in the fog and learn that it belongs to a friend's niece, Katie Spinner, they begin to suspect that she is not in a watery grave but in the clutches of a kidnapper. When one of Katie's friends—who was supposed to go with her to the North Beach arts festival—turns up dead, the mystery of the missing young woman becomes only more challenging in this compelling 1950s mystery in the long-running PI series. Praise for the Pat and Jean Abbott Mysteries "Pat does a first-class job of detecting." —The New York Times "Amusing and sophisticated." —Daily Star "[A] lively, well-plotted and mystifying case."...