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==Book Description==
 
==Book Description==
  
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THis is the story of an ordinary, unambitious young man named Harry Ricks who falls hopelessly in love with a girl he meets by chance in a pub. Unluckily for him, the girl, Clair Dolan, also falls in love with him.
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Even when Harry discovers Clair is a pick-pocket, working with a gang, headed by Robert Brady, an unscrupulous blackmailer,  he doesn't hesitate to marry her, believing his love and influence will prevent her from returning to her old mode of life.
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For a time, everything goes well for them; then from out of the past comes Robert Brady to blackmail Clair. Caught in a trap of her own making, Clair reverts to type, and her reckless reaction to Brady's demands finally culminates in murder.
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Here is a lively thriller...written at Raymond Marshall's usual exciting pace, with a realistic and unexpected twist in the very last line.
  
 
==Cover Variation (By Release Date)==
 
==Cover Variation (By Release Date)==

Latest revision as of 16:56, 27 December 2012

1955 US Edition
By Raymond Marshall
Publisher Harlequin Romance #340
Release Month 1955 (US)
Harlequin Romance Series #
Preceded by Nurses Are People
Followed by Ruthless

Book Description

THis is the story of an ordinary, unambitious young man named Harry Ricks who falls hopelessly in love with a girl he meets by chance in a pub. Unluckily for him, the girl, Clair Dolan, also falls in love with him.

Even when Harry discovers Clair is a pick-pocket, working with a gang, headed by Robert Brady, an unscrupulous blackmailer, he doesn't hesitate to marry her, believing his love and influence will prevent her from returning to her old mode of life.

For a time, everything goes well for them; then from out of the past comes Robert Brady to blackmail Clair. Caught in a trap of her own making, Clair reverts to type, and her reckless reaction to Brady's demands finally culminates in murder.

Here is a lively thriller...written at Raymond Marshall's usual exciting pace, with a realistic and unexpected twist in the very last line.

Cover Variation (By Release Date)

1955 <br\>US Edition