Murder Leaves A Ring
Fay Grissom Stanley
1953 Dell #662
Cover Art by James Messe
This novel received an "Honorable Mention" in the 4th Mary Roberts Rinehart Mystery Novel Prize Contest.
She was too lovely to live.
Murder Leaves a Ring is pure detective fiction, and the cover (as you will have seen for yourself) falls into the body in a bathtub subgenre. It is told by the primary protagonist, Katheryn Chapin, a would-be mystery writer herself, as we learn on page one: she s working on the manuscript of a novel called “Murder on Monday,” just before climbing into a tub, where she first must clean the ring left behind by one of her two roommates, a showgirl named Iris McIvers.
Later on, during a party, it is Iris's body who is found in the very same tub, fully clothed, but with a stocking knotted tightly around her neck. It is learned soon after that Iris had been doing a brisk business of shakedown if not out-and-out blackmail, among other secrets....
Murder with Southern Hospitality
by Leslie Ford
Cover art by Robert Stanley
1951 Dell #505
Magnolias and murder -- live oaks and dead women -- romance and violence -- are what three unsuspecting women find on the Garden Club pilgrimage to glamorous Old Natchez. Expecting to recapture the magic of the Old South, they become involved, instead, in an ancient feud of love and death, where the romantic sins of the past come to life in very modern murder!
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