โ Scribed by Rex Stout
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Cheaters never prosper, but Nero Wolfe encounters one who kills trying. At the Pour Amour perfume riddle contest, a million dollars goes to the contestant who can answer five questions. Someone doesn't like the heat of competition, so he murders the contest founder and steals the answers to the riddles. Now Wolfe has to sniff down a trail of clues that leads disturbingly close to home.
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On Christmas Eve, a lawyer helps a battered wife search for her kidnapped son As ex-husbands go, they don't get much worse than Carl. He's violent, drunken, and possessive--and worst of all, he's an ex-cop. Bonnie has remarried, and done everything she can to keep their son away from his father, bu
Virginia Kantra Home Before Midnight Berkley Sensation ASIN: B001QTV4NG (mobi) ISBN: 9781101010594 (epub) ISBN: 9781101008478 (adobe reader) ISBN: 0-425-21108-8 (paperback) August 1, 2006 336 pages Romantic Suspense Setting: Stokesville, NC Back cover: *USA Today* bestsel
USA Today bestselling author Virginia Kantra delivers a haunting novel of suspense and passion, in which the sins of the past are never forgivenand murder is never forgotten... Years ago, Bailey Wells left behind her small-town North Carolina roots for the high life in New York City, working as a pe
### From Publishers Weekly Hunter ( The Spanish Gambit ) has written a smoothly believable race-against-time thriller with frightening plausibility. Unidentified military terrorists kidnap welder Jack Hummel from his Maryland home and direct him to cut through a block of titanium to reach a launch
Paramilitary terrorists who have taken over a top-secret nuclear complex kidnap Maryland welder Jack Hummel and force him to cut through a half-ton titanium block that conceals the launch button.
### From Publishers Weekly Hunter ( The Spanish Gambit ) has written a smoothly believable race-against-time thriller with frightening plausibility. Unidentified military terrorists kidnap welder Jack Hummel from his Maryland home and direct him to cut through a block of titanium to reach a launch