The Dangerous Dead
| By William Brandon | |
| Publisher | Harlequin Romance #63 |
| Release Month | 1950 (US) |
| Harlequin Romance Series # | |
| Preceded by | Message From A Corpse |
| Followed by | Sinister Warning |
- Author: William Brandon
- Publisher: Harlequin Romance #63
- Year: 1950
Book Description
Mr. Bowler needed help. His insane wife had died - leaving a cool half million - and Mr. Bowler had secretly married Molly, his pretty black-haired housemaid. All of which was very well, except that the Molly business was a direct violation of his dead wife's will, and if it came it light, Mr. Bowler stood to do himself out of a nice inheritance. And here was Mrs. Spang, the first Mrs. Bowwler's sister, come to visit. Mrs. Spang - she of the prying nose and ultra-suspicious mind!
A situation ripe for blackmail? Mr. Bowler thought so, and that's why he invited Sam Ireland, private detective, up to his snow-blanketed Vermont estate.
But when Ireland arrived, he found stranger things than blackmail to test his investigative wits: Mrs. Spang's professed ability to talk with the dead, for instance; the mystery of rifle shots in the night, and the behaviour of lovely red-headed Anice Doyle - another of Mr. Bowler's guests - who drank with roughnecks, held hands with the hired man and drew to an inside straight.
That it should all lead to murder was inevitable, and Ireland was only surprised by the fact that the murder - or murders, maybe - had been committed almost a year before!
