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==Book Description==
 
==Book Description==
  
Striking terror in staff and patients alike, murder stalked unmolested through the dim halls of Reshome, a private hospital for the very rich and the very 'nervous.' And the richest of them, the mystery fan, Agatha Lawson, was to be discharged that day, after a ten year 'visit'. Caught in the new excitement of death and intrigue, she stayed on tp help the blunding Lieutenant Hogan weed out the criminal from among the inmates. 'It takes a thief to catch a thief.' sagely said Agatha. That sounded sensible to the bewildered detective, who was beginning to doubt his own sanity. Thus, Agatha became a guide to murder. Thus, both she and the Lieutenant set about to discover the secret guarded by Dr. Lennox and his staff with such grim determination. Here is a gory, murder-filled mystery story, yet so amusingly told that the reader will constantly chuckle - when he is not shuddering!
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Striking terror in staff and patients alike, murder stalked unmolested through the dim halls of Resthome, a private hospital for the very rich and the very "nervous". And the richest of them, the mystery fan, Agatha Lawson, was to be discharged that day, after a ten year "visit". Caught in the new excitement of death and intrigue, she stayed on tp help the blunding Lieutenant Hogan weed out the criminal from among the inmates.  
  
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'It takes a thief to catch a thief,' sagely said Agatha. That sounded sensible to the bewildered detective, who was beginning to doubt his own sanity. Thus, Agatha became a guide to murder. Thus, both she and the Lieutenant set about to discover the secret guarded by Dr. Lennox and his staff with such grim determination.
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Here is a gory, murder-filled mystery story, yet so amusingly told that the reader will constantly chuckle - when he is not shuddering!
  
 
==Cover Variation (By Release Date)==
 
==Cover Variation (By Release Date)==

Latest revision as of 07:18, 30 December 2012

1949 US Edition
By Ann Cardwell
Publisher Harlequin Romance #22
Release Month 1949 (US)
Harlequin Romance Series
Preceded by Renegade Ranger
Followed by City For Conquest

Book Description

Striking terror in staff and patients alike, murder stalked unmolested through the dim halls of Resthome, a private hospital for the very rich and the very "nervous". And the richest of them, the mystery fan, Agatha Lawson, was to be discharged that day, after a ten year "visit". Caught in the new excitement of death and intrigue, she stayed on tp help the blunding Lieutenant Hogan weed out the criminal from among the inmates.

'It takes a thief to catch a thief,' sagely said Agatha. That sounded sensible to the bewildered detective, who was beginning to doubt his own sanity. Thus, Agatha became a guide to murder. Thus, both she and the Lieutenant set about to discover the secret guarded by Dr. Lennox and his staff with such grim determination.

Here is a gory, murder-filled mystery story, yet so amusingly told that the reader will constantly chuckle - when he is not shuddering!

Cover Variation (By Release Date)

1949 <br\>US Edition