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The Lone Footprint (Kay Tracey Mystery #15)
by Frances K. JuddTwo fleeing figures scramble up the lonely hillside and disappear from Kay's view behind a rock ledge. Breathless, she climbs after them, determined to question them about the strange happenings at Owl's Hole, a summer resort. Suddenly a boulder comes crashing down the slope directly at Kay. She dodges quickly, the massive rock missing her by inches. By the time she has recovered and reached the ledge, the fugitives have accomplished a getaway! But Kay is far from discouraged. She has been asked to solve the mystery of the summer resort, and is determined to do it. Mysterious fires have broken out. Valuables have vanished. Weird voices groan after dark, and stealthy shapes follow unwary strollers. The Lone Footprint For a while, Kay's only clue is a single footprint. Whose is it, and why is he plaguing the innocent residents of Owl's Hole? Kay's clever detective work, with the aid of her two friends, Betty and Wilma Worth, carries her through one dangerous adventure after another. Jealous Ethel Eaton adds to the dilemma, nearly spoiling a perfect trap. Kay's search for the phantom troublemaker takes her to an unexpected solution, one that involves a missing member of her own family!
The Lone Ranger (Little Golden Book)
by E. Joseph Dreany Steffi FletcherIn this classic Little Golden Book from 1956, The Lone Ranger and Tonto help a young boy find his missing brother--and end up capturing a bunch of bandits! For little cowboys ages 2 to 6.
The Lone Sheriff
by Lynna BanningThe Lone Sheriff encounters his headstrong match in a lady Pinkerton in this historical romance from Lynna Banning.A woman detective? Not on his watch!As if tracking down train robbers wasn’t hard enough, now Sheriff Jericho Silver’s backup has arrived, and she’s a gun-toting, head-turning beauty. She sure spells trouble.Madison O’Donnell had the perfect life—a beautiful home and all the ladies’ luncheons she could stomach—but it left her bored to tears. Now a widow, she’s determined to fill her days with daring deeds and wild adventures.Jericho is equally determined that she’ll be on the next train home. But this is one lady who won’t take no for an answer.
The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club
by Susan McbrideAndy Kendricks is back in the third sassy and irresistible installment in Susan McBride's Debutante Dropout series ... and this time she's teaming up with her high-society mama to catch a killer who's targeting rich, lonely widows. Wealthy Texas widows need loving too ... which is why Bebe Kent joined a dating service for "discriminating" seniors soon after relocating to the swanky Belle Meade retirement community. Unfortunately, Bebe didn't even live long enough to meet "Mr. Right." And though doctors declared her death totally natural, extravagant blue-blooded Dallas socialite Cissy Blevins Kendricks believes her old friend's demise was hastened--and she's ready to check herself into Belle Meade incognito to prove it. Cissy's rebellious, sometimes-sleuthing daughter, Andrea, wants no part of her mother's crazy schemes--yet she's anything but pleased that Cissy is going off on her own, playing a highbrow Miss Marple. So she has no choice but to join her mom in search of the truth--especially when more well-heeled widows start turning up dead ...
The Lone Wolf
by Otto Penzler Louis Joseph VanceThe origin story of the Lone Wolf, master criminal with a conscienceOne rainy winter night, an orphan is abandoned to the care of a shabby Parisian inn called Troyon’s. For the next eleven years, the boy is up before dawn to clean and fetch and serve, his only respite the closet to which he retires at night and the books he pilfers from the hotel’s guests. A few francs here and there also find their way into his pockets, but not so much that anyone would notice—anyone, that is, except Bourke, the cultivated Irish thief who regularly hides out at Troyon’s. Caught red-handed, the amateur outwits the professional. Turn me over to the innkeepers, he says, and I’ll go to the police with everything I know about you. Astonished, Bourke takes the boy under his wing and teaches him how to be a master criminal. The most important lesson? Be friendless.Years later, Michael Lanyard—known to the authorities only as the Lone Wolf—is the world’s greatest jewel thief. When a ruthless gang of outlaws threatens to expose him unless he joins their “pack,” Lanyard vows to give up crime rather than violate Bourke’s code. Only a beautiful American girl and a sinister German spy stand in his way.Louis Joseph Vance’s groundbreaking series introduced a new turn of phrase to the language and gave American literature one of its most iconic characters.This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
The Lone Wolf Sereies #10 - Harlem Showdown
by Mike BarryWhen a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can't live much longer. Now Calabrese the Kingpin was dead . . . Tamara was dead . . . and the world faced him like a burnt-out fuse. But the war was not over--it could never be over for Wulff. Calabrese's henchmen were after him, the taste of bloody vendetta in their mouths, their guns aimed an poised to shoot. So Wulff fled to his home turf, holed up in a filthy rooming house on the upper West Side of New York, and began the battle against two fronts--the dog soldiers of the Mob set on bringing his head home as a bounty, and the drug-crazed junkies struggling to feed their habits . . .
The Lone Wolf Sereies #11 - Detriot Massacre
by Mike BarryWhen a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can't live much longer. After the bloody business up in Harlem, when the turf blew wide open and the world seemed to end in flames, Wulff was taken into protective custody. It was O. K. : it wasn't his first time in jail. Not nearly, not in a life like Wulff's. At least the accommodations were clean and the meals regular, what more could a man like Wulff ask after they smashed his fiance and made his life a burnt-out cinder? But Wulff wasn't even safe in prison. So he forced his way out--it's safer when you're on the run. Always going where the trouble is, he made his way to Detroit, that chrome city that turns out such shiny cars. The trouble was that the cars were coming off the conveyor belt with uncut junk in their innards. And even more troublesome was the fact that Wulff knew all of it.
The Lone Wolf Sereies #12 - Phoenix Inferno
by Mike BarryWhen a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can't live much longer. Wulff left Detroit with flames in his wake, and a shipment of coke in his trunk. He didn't know where he'd be going next. Probably New York, although it had so many black memories for him of his fiance Marie, OD's in a cheap rooming house where he found her while he was on a police call . . . Now all he wanted was rest as he drove south out of the motor city. But there was no rest for Wulff, not as long as the mob wanted him and not as long as the cops wanted him. Driving down the Interstate, he sidewipes a motorcyclist and stops to help with a politeness that he knows will be a mistake. Soon he finds himself held hostage by two henchmen sent on a mission to bring Burt Wulff to Phoenix . . . dead or alive!
The Lone Wolf Sereies #13 - The Killing Run
by Mike BarryWhen a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can't live much longer. After Wulff killed Carlin in Mexico City and watched his dynamited house burn down, he decided he deserved a rest. He knew that his work wasn't nearly over. But a lot of the top men were down--bullet-riddled, blown up or cremated, and the organization was beginning to feel the effect. Wulff could relax--a day or two at least. What he didn't know was that little vacation in Mexico city would touch off the most violent, far-ranging hunt of his life, a Killing Run that would take him across two countries, his mad fury for vengeance almost consuming him as well.
The Lone Wolf Sereies #14 - Philadelphia Blowup
by Mike BarryWhen a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can't live much longer. The warpath of Burt Wulff had begun in New York City, taken him cross-country to San Francisco, then in an ever-increasing ring of fire and brutal vengeance to Cuba, Peru and back to the USA for a killing run across the entire nation. But now Wulff's string was finally running out. Both the syndicate and the official police were gunning The Lone Wolf--and now it was just a matter of time . . .
The Lone Wolf Sereies #2 - Bay Prowler
by Mike BarryWhen a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can't live much longer. Memo to Top Echelons Only Subject: Burt Wulff Subject is extremely dangerous and cannot be approached. Upon identification he should be killed immediately, regardless of apparent risk . . . Circumstances creating Wulff's decision to commence his "war against the international drug trade" (phraseology apparently his) trace to personal motives . . . Certain activities of his in New York have shifted the line of succession and created problems out of all relation to the subject's apparent powers to do so. How Wulff was able to penetrate security is not yet known. Based on certain documents in an attach case stolen by Wulff from one of our principles whom he murdered at close range, the subject to the beast of our knowledge has emplaned for San Francisco to continue his "war. " All parties in the San Francisco area are hereby warned. Details of the bounty on Wulff will follow.
The Lone Wolf Sereies #3 - Boston Avenger
by Mike BarryWhen a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can't live much longer. Memo to; Chief, NYPD RE: Burt Wulff In New York City he was able to kill at least ten people, three of them at high levels in East Coast drug distribution network. In one case, he blew up a three story townhouse on the east side of Manhattan . . . Subject then proceeded to San Francisco; there is considerable newspaper evidence as to some of his acts there. In a major dock fire a freighter was destroyed and 50 to 60 people were killed, including several law-enforcement personnel. (It is strongly indicated, however, that Wulff considers himself to be aiding the authorities. ) . . . According to unreliable sources who cannot be identified, subject saved $250,000 worth of heroin from the ship fire and is now heading with it toward Boston, using it as "bait" to move the ever higher levels of responsibility for the traffic. End report.
The Lone Wolf Sereies #4 - Desert Stalker
by Mike BarryWhen a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can't live much longer. Memo To: Network Subject: Burt Wulff This man must be killed on sight. Details of the bounty will be distributed in a further memo. Subject is a veteran of combat and displays an extremely sophisticated knowledge of explosives, incendiary devices, armaments of all kinds and hand-to-hand combat. He is responsible for at least on hundred and fifty deaths and it appears that his "war" is now accelerating. In the twelve years of the interlocking organization and the important supply pact of 1963, no such danger had appeared. Wulff is only one man but for that precise reason retains a great freedom of action. He is a cold, remorseless killer and the danger he represents is not to be ignored.
The Lone Wolf Sereies #6 - Chicago Slaughter
by Mike BarryWhen a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can't live much longer. There was nothing you could do, the policeman thought. You just had to seal off your mind. Unless you were that crazy bastard Wulff. He thought for a moment of his ex-partner, ex-cop, ex-combat soldier, ex-narco, who was going to clean up the international drug trade singlehandedly and on the street. Wulff was crazy, he thought that you could really make a difference. The policeman could have laughed but then he thought of what Wulff had accomplished in just a couple of months of single-handed action and he was not so sure. Moving out on his own he had done more damage than a hundred agencies in twenty years. The policeman was still busy with these reflections when the knife entered him, between two ribs, neatly and almost painlessly at first.
The Lone Wolf Sereies #7 - Peruvian Nightmare
by Mike BarryWhen a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can't live much longer. Burt Wulff found himself in something called the Hotel Crillon in Lima. It was steel and glass, looked like a Hilton, and had beggars living in the eaves. In Wulff's room there was a small man who wanted you to think he was Peruvian, but Wulff figured he was German if he was anything at all. He wanted Wulff to deliver several million dollars worth of heroin to the States. Several of the most efficient man-hunting organizations in the world--a few of them legal--desperately wanted Wulff dead, and knew where he was. Wulff said, "I don't think you understand . . . " One of the other two men in the room both sprawled on the floor, shook, limbs flailing like and insect's, in his coma. The small man flinched, and said, "Your work is well known. But you will never get out of Peru without my help . . . "
The Lone Wolf Sereies #8 - Los Angeles Holocaust
by Mike BarryLos Angeles Holocaust: Mike Barry When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can't live much longer. Los Angeles was not a place but a mental state, the mental state of a severely deranged person. Wulff hated it. Los Angeles and New York were nominally both American cities but while New York was a great, steaming, dying beast, Los Angeles was merely vapor. Wulff was marked, but he was marked for Calabrese. He was Calabrese's game, Wulff, was, Wulff and his two million dollar cargo. Wulff was scheduled for killing, and it might as well happen in this cheap rooming house for unemployed actors in this suburb in a city that was all suburbs at the ragged-ass end of the continent . . .
The Lone Wolf Sereies #9 - Miami Marauder
by Mike BarryWhen a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can't live much longer. Burt Wulff was the target, and the way to Wulff was through an old friend named Tamara. Calabrese's men came for her in broad daylight, abducted her from her home and shot her full of drugs so that she didn't know a thing until she woke up in Miami. Miami--famous resort town, place in the sun and all that--but not now, not for Tamara and not for Wulff. The trouble was that Wulff was dead set against heroin, and went around breaking up the neat little trade routes that drug runners had set up around the globe. Now Calabrese decided he'd had enough of Wulff. Now he had Tamara, the bait by which to lure Wulff to Miami. In the shadow of those fine hotels and fancy shops, there was something going on along surfside. And that something was called murder.
The Lone Wolf Series #5 - Havana Hit
by Mike BarryWhen a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can't live much longer. To the Commissioner: Burt Wulff, a former member of this department, began his campaign to destroy the international drug trade in New York. Traveling then to San Francisco, back across the country to Boston and back yet again to Las Vegas--all within a period of less than four weeks--he seems to have been solely responsible for the deaths of several hundred operatives involved at all levels of the national and international drug trade. At least three of them were at the highest perceptible levels. In San Francisco Bay, fire aboard and subsequent sinking of a large freighter; the destruction of a townhouse in NYC and a row of residences in Boston; the gutting of the Paradise Hotel, a major resort and gambling center in Las Vegas; all seem to be Wulff's work. He is apparently marked for execution at all levels of the network and despite the success of his shock tactics, cannot go on much longer.
The Lone Wolfe (The Notorious Wolfes #1)
by Kate HewittAfter years lying neglected, the walls of Wolfe Manor tremble as Jacob Wolfe returns-the master is back!Gardener's daughter Mollie Parker has lived amidst the secret, overgrown garden in her little cottage-waiting...for what, she wasn't sure...until now.Reputation in tatters, Jacob licks his wounds alone in the shadows. Mollie knows his ferocious bark is worse than his bite and as she takes her tentative steps across the threshold, she brings with her the light missing from his darkened soul. The lone Wolfe will never be tamed-but she knows that once he loves, he loves for life.
The Lone Woman
by Bernardo AtxagaIrene is 37 years old and just out of prison after serving time for terrorist activities. Deciding to return home to Bilbao, she takes a bus journey across Spain, striking up conversations with the passengers who include two plainclothes policemen. As the journey progresses, so the tension builds.
The Loneliest Girl in the Universe
by Lauren JamesA surprising and gripping sci-fi thriller with a killer twistThe daughter of two astronauts, Romy Silvers is no stranger to life in space. But she never knew how isolating the universe could be until her parents’ tragic deaths left her alone on the Infinity, a spaceship speeding away from Earth. Romy tries to make the best of her lonely situation, but with only brief messages from her therapist on Earth to keep her company, she can’t help but feel like something is missing. It seems like a dream come true when NASA alerts her that another ship, the Eternity, will be joining the Infinity. Romy begins exchanging messages with J, the captain of the Eternity, and their friendship breathes new life into her world. But as the Eternity gets closer, Romy learns there’s more to J’s mission than she could have imagined. And suddenly, there are worse things than being alone….Now nominated as a YALSA Quick Pick!
The Lonely Dead
by April HenryA killer is on the loose, and only one girl has the power to find him. But in this genre-bending YA thriller, she must first manage to avoid becoming a target herself.For Adele, the dead aren’t really dead. She can see them and even talk to them. But she’s spent years denying her gift. When she encounters her ex best friend Tori in a shallow grave in the woods and realizes that Tori is actually dead -- that gift turns into a curse. Without an alibi, Adele becomes the prime suspect in Tori’s murder. She must work with Tori’s ghost to find the real killer. But what if the killer finds Adele first? In The Lonely Dead, master mystery writer April Henry adds a chilling paranormal twist to this incredibly suspenseful young adult novel. Christy Ottaviano Books
The Lonely Girls Club
by Suzanne ForsterAt an exclusive California prep school, four young girls form a bond that will endure over two decades-a bond built on secrets, scandal and murder...a bond about to be broken... Mattie, a federal judge...Breeze, a wealthy entrepreneur...and Jane, the first lady of the United States, have all enjoyed a meteoric rise to success since their days at the Rowe Academy for Girls. But now the truth behind the suicide of their friend Ivy and the murder of their headmistress twenty years ago is no longer safely hidden. The man imprisoned for the murder has been exonerated, and a true-crime reporter is relentlessly pursuing a loose thread in the decades-old cover-up, one that threatens to unravel the women's pact of silence. But none of them anticipates the twisted depths of the secrets about to be exposed-or how the truth is poised to shatter all their lives. ...
The Lonely God
by Agatha ChristiePreviously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories.Frank Oliver returns to England after years of overseas service only to realize he no longer knows anyone there. On visiting the British Museum, he encounters the "lonely god," who seems to be experiencing the same sense of isolation he is. Will this strange deity help relieve him of his loneliness?
The Lonely Gun
by Gordon D ShirreffsThe Conquistadors had called it the Devil’s Highway. It was the highest, driest, meanest desert in northern Mexico, and Case Hardesty had to cross it on foot or die. Behind him were the outlaws he’d taken for $20,000, and behind them the lawmen who had sworn death to them all. In one hand he held a Winchester, and in the other a salt sack stuffed with enough bills to buy a ranch in Sonora—if he made it. Or a grave, if he didn’t.