Brown Zenith: 22 books

Slowly I turned to face the hall and the doorway. I waited in an agony of suspense. The great house was as silent as an empty grave, with the pulse of time beating eternally against it; tick, tock; tick, tock; tick, tock... Gradually I relaxed and let my hand drop, until—I shrieked and turned-and...

The secret ballot for murder... Politics is a rough business -- and Congressman Hamilton ("Call Me Ham") Vair made it rougher. To reach his goal, he would use anything and anyone -- blackmail, bribery, or a beautiful, not-so-dumb blonde. Everyone knew that. But suddenly there was...

"Leslie Ford is one of the cleverest and most original of our mystery novelists." -- New York Times The mansion at Strawberry Hill rose like a stately white magnolia from a lush green hilltop in Carolina. It was a haven of beauty and grace, and Jennifer Reid knew it was the only place...

In the middle of the night, struggling B actor Glenn Harley gets a hysterical phone call from starlet Nancy Rhymer. She needs Harley to come over to her house immediately. Harley, who always has secretly longed for Nancy Rhymer, jumps out of bed and drives quickly to her home. Once there, he discovers...

"A beautiful blonde with something to hide... A youthful and puzzled doctor... A pretty -- and frightened -- teenager... A very rich, very angry young man... Each set out that night, unaware that at least one of them had a bizarre date with death. Once you start, you won't be able to stop reading...

The town was dark and heavy with doom. Hate, generations old, flowed through it like a malevolent river. Julie knew the force of that hate... and the violence which had issued from it in the past. It could erupt again; she lived in terror. Ben, the stranger, saw Julie and fell in love. A secret...

She was elegant, beautiful, and a cold-blooded killer...or so it appeared. She had the perfect motive. She even admitted to being at the scene of the crime. Scotland Yard was prepared to charge Louise Colton with her husband's brutal murder. Only shy, retiring Mr. Pinkerton believed her innocent....