Bøker av Patrick Quentin

A Collection of Murder Tales from Patrick Quentin...The Jack of Diamonds: Starner had something on each of them. So Vanderloon sent them all an invitation that included the handwritten phrase "to meet and to murder Mr. Joseph Starner." The object is to kill him and make it look like an accident. But, of course, the best laid plans often go awry. Exit Before Midnight: It's New Year's Eve, and the stockholders of Leland & Rowley are about to sign over an agreement to merge with the Pan-American Dye Combine. On her way to the meeting, secretary Carole Thorne finds a typed message: "... if the merger is carried, I have decided to murder several of you..." She thinks it's a practical joke-until their attorney becomes the first victim!Another Man's Poison: When Dr. Knudsen collapses dead during an operation, it looks like someone had poisoned his coffee. And only one person could have done it. With his back against the wall, it's up to young intern Oliver Lord to prove his innocence.The Gypsy Warned Him: Gunner's Mate Lew Warren is on an 8-hour leave and decides to hit the first bar he sees. There he meets a little man who tells him about a gypsy, "the best fortune teller in New York," and even offers to pay the gypsy himself to tell Warren's fortune. How could he know that he had just fallen into a subtle trap that would end in murder?

Broadway producer Peter Duluth sought solace in a bottle after his wife's death; now, two years later and desperate to dry out, he enters a sanitarium, hoping to break his dependence on drink-but the institution doesn't quite offer the rest and relaxation he expected. Strange, malevolent occurrences plague the hospital; and among other inexplicable events, Peter hears his own voice with an ominous warning: "There will be murder." It soon becomes clear that a homicidal maniac is on the loose, and, with a staff every bit as erratic as its idiosyncratic patients, it seems everyone is a suspect-even Duluth's new romantic interest, Iris Pattison. Charged by the baffled head of the ward with solving the crimes, it's up to Peter to clear her name before the killer strikes again. Reprinted for the first time in over thirty years, A Puzzle for Fools is the atmospheric and complex mystery that first introduced Peter Duluth; the character and his love interest Iris went on to star in eight more novels, two of which were adapted for film.