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NOBODY WILL LISTEN: THE COLLECTED MYSTERY STORIES OF ELISABETH SANXAY HOLDINGThe Blue Envelope: George Nevill, the deputy commissioner of San Fernago, is presented with an interesting case when Miss Sylvester accuses Dulac, Mrs. Jones' chauffeur, of being a German spy. As far as Nevill knows, Dulac is the loyal Frenchman he seems, but Miss Sylvester knows better and is willing to go to any lengths to prove it. Friday, the Nineteenth: Boyce is sick of his wife and his boring life. He and his neighbor Molly have been flirting for a while, but the time has come for them to do something about it. They agree to meet the next day at a downtown hotel. But when he awakes the following morning Boyce discovers that it's still Friday. Every morning is Friday! Can he and Molly ever escape this endless day and find Saturday together?The Chain of Death: Gilbert Emery has been shot during an apparent robbery, but his daughter Lois thinks there is more to it. She convinces her uncle, Barty Clement, to come back to the house with her to investigate. Clement is a reluctant sleuth, but even he can see that something is amiss here-everyone hates Emery, and no one is telling a straight story to him or the police. Three clever mystery stories plus 16 more, some set in the Caribbean, many set during the second World War, all infused with Holding's psychological twists and turns and her cool depiction of the contrariness of human nature.

ROOM SERVICE For about ten years, Miles Farrington had known that his wife, Brenda, had been unfaithful to him. He had not done anything about it. He had not had affairs withother women. He devoted himself to business, to his hobbies and to philanthropy, and he tried to convince himself that he was leading a full life. But the time had come when he could no longer evade the issue. His friends were telling him about Brenda's affair. She was being openly, boastfully, adulterous and Miles realized that he was a fool, not a saint, in the eyes of the world. Something would have to be done. It would have to be something involving action,direct action...

"Come on," Wulff said after a while. "You can talk now. Tell me."Díaz lay there. It would be interesting to study the psychology of a man who had reached absolute hopelessness, Wulff thought, but he did not have the time for that now. "Names and addresses," he said, "or I'll kick you again, and this time I won't go low." Díaz began to talk. He told Wulff what he wanted to know, with admirable specifics. Wulff listened without comment. It was highly interesting. He would not have imagined, having gone this far in, that there was this much of a new echelon left. It just went to show you that enterprise was endless."All right," Wulff said when the man was finished. "Thank you very much." He leveled the gun at Díaz and shot him in the head three times. Then he put the gun away and went out of the room and started immediately upon his final mission...The final, climactic conclusion to the Lone Wolf series, originally published by Berkley Books in the early 1970s under the name "Mike Barry."

AWAKE AND DIEPeters returned from Korea with shrapnel in his head. The doctor said they can't get it all out, that he'd get better in time. But Peters is itching to get back to his Jersey river, back to his active life. Which is how he hooks up with Mae. That was a year ago. Now Peters is so sick of Mae, he can't stand it. So when he meets Claire, he knows it's time for Mae to go. But Mae has other plans, like moving in with Peters. He doesn't mean to kill her. Not really. Mae is drunk as usual, and yelling. And all he can think about is Claire. All of a sudden he finds his fingers around her neck... there is a splash, and Mae is gone. Now Peters has got to figure out a good alibi. Which is how he runs into Chris at the bar. But nothing seems to go right that evening. She knows too much. And now he's got to figure out what to do with Chris...

Burt Wulff, after two years in the army, most of it in Vietnam, had been entitled to something nice for his trouble, so they had made him a narco. A New York City narcotics cop, with the freedom and the plainclothes and the graft money... but something had happened to this Wulff overseas: he had gone crazy. He had become a man of integrity. Eventually he tried to bust an informant, and they knew they would have to do something about this wild man...When Wulff saw his fiancée OD'd out on the floor, he thought that he might go mad on the spot but quite strangely he did not. Wulff went straight home and discarded everything except his gun and a spare. They were hardly the equipment he would need but they were a beginning. By mid-summer, he had the beginnings of an operation in his mind. The rest he would have to play by ear. Wulff hit the streets to kill a lot of people. The 11th and 12th books in Malzberg's vigilante series, The Lone Wolf, originally published by Berkley Books in the early 1970s under the name "Mike Barry."

Barney Page is wandering Manhattan from bar to bar in an alcoholic haze. He's even sunk to sleeping in a Bowery flophouse. He used to be one of Broadway's top actors, the toast of the town. But that was before his wife Sheila took an overdose of sleeping medicine and didn't wake up. That was before he strangled his lover, Fern. That was before he found himself on a lower platform on the Grand Central subway, his options run out, his life completely forfeit, on the lam from the police, with only two friends left in the world. But what if he were given a second chance? What if he could live this last year all over again? What if he could change it all for the better...?

"Victor Clyde has got the perfect scam: he checks out the big winners at the racetrack, figures out where they live, then breaks into their homes and robs them of their winnings. Victor knows he's too clever to be caught, but then he accidentally hits one of his victims too hard, and now it's time to leave L.A. and head East. On his way out of town, he meets young Jessie Hewitt, and offers her a ride. Jessie is done rebelling against her father, and has decided to return to the family farm. Victor pours on the charm, and by the time they reach New York, she's fallen in love with him. He figures she makes the perfect cover. What he doesn't figure is that when Jessie finds out that he's a thief, she decides to join him ..."--Provided by publisher.