The Triple Cross

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1950 US Edition
By Joe Barry
Publisher Harlequin Romance #84
Release Month 1950 (US)
Harlequin Romance Series #
Preceded by Fall Guy
Followed by She Died On The Stairway

Book Description

He had been shot. He was in Des Moines, Iowa. He was a private detective from Chicago, and his name was Rush Henry. But all this meant nothing to the man on the hospital bed. His only memory was of a quiet tree-lined street and a solitary figure approaching.

So began the strangest case in Rush Henry's career, a case apparently blocked at every turn by the detective's amnesia. Returning to Chicago he learned from his secretary, Gertrude, that he had been retained by a mysterious client who had never reappeared and whose name Rush had never mentioned. Pappy Daley of the "Express" helped Rush to identify the client as the millionaire George Marshall Simon, whose reunion with his long lost daughter, Ruth, had been a front page feature six months earlier. And now Simon himself was dead, the victim of an automobile crash that seemed more than an accident.

Why had Rush gone to Des Moines, and what secret had he known which marked him for death? Was the girl once called Ruth Carr really Ruth Simon? A characteristic fast-moving Rush Henry mystery, culminating in the adroit trapping of the killer and the exposure of an amazing "triple cross."

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1950 <br\>US Edition