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THE MAN WHO GOT AWAY WITH ITTwenty years ago, young Inez Bailey was strangled to death, and the killer was never found. On a trip to California to visit his sister, Chicago police inspector Roy Malley finds this old crime intriguing. He’s sure he could have discovered the murderer if it had been his crime to solve. Busman’s holiday or not, he starts to dig. And uncovers more than he intended when he sets the wheels in motion in this small community. Because the killer is still among them, a respected member of society, a family man and business owner. He is in tight control of himself, has been for years. But with just a little push, he could let himself go. But letting go is the one thing he can’t let himself do.THE THREE WIDOWSThe Bladeswells are on vacation, traveling by car from Omaha to California. While in Santa Cruz, they hear about a man found dead on the beach, which brings to mind a similar event which occurred while the couple were vacationing in Yellowstone—a man found dead with no identification on him. When Mr. Bladewell hears about another similar case in Yosemite, he begins to wonder if there isn’t someone on a select killing spree. The next night finds them at a cabin resort in Escondido, where they join their hometown friend Chet. The unmarried Chet is enjoying the attention of three older women vacationers, all recently widowed. This sets Mr. Bladeswell to thinking—three dead men and three widowed women—that perhaps there is more than coincidence at work here ... that maybe one of them is a murderer.

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Bernice Carey was born in Chetek, Wisconsin on June 27, 1910, the granddaughter of Danish immigrants. As a teenager, Carey moved to California, graduating in 1928 from Long Beach Polytechnic High School, where she served as a reporter on the school newspaper. That same year she married Walter Fitch, a mechanical engineer. During the couple’s fourteen years of marriage, they resided in various towns across the state, including Ventura, Monterey and Salinas, where they were influenced by progressive political ideology. During this time, Carey published poems, short stories and book reviews in local newspapers and literary magazines. After her marriage to Fitch broke up, Carey married high school teacher Dick Martin. Encouraged by her new husband, Carey in 1949 published The Reluctant Murderer, the first of her eight highly-praised crime novels. After publishing her final crime novel in 1955, Carey spent the latter years of her life in Los Gatos surrounded by family and friends. She died at the age of 79 on February 8, 1990.

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"[Makes] the realistic depiction of murder in the lower middle class particularly her own."--Anthony Boucher, NY Times

"Carey ... was an adept plotter but was more interested in characterization and social comment. In short, she was very much a forerunner of modern literary crime fiction."-- Xavier Lechard, At the Villa Rose

"Arguably the most significant contribution of Bernice Carey to mid-century crime fiction was her commitment to exploring realistic social conditions in her novels."--Curtis Evans, from his Introduction



Carey wrote eight strikingly realistic mystery novels from 1949 through 1955, of which these two, republished together, are notable examples. In The Man Who Got Away with It (1950), Chicago homicide detective Roy Malley is visiting in-laws in small-town Los Alegres, California, when the conversation turns to an unsolved murder in the town some 20 years earlier. Malley, bored with the in-laws, decides to dig into the cold case, but what starts out as a time killer soon brings him within striking distance of a real killer. The Three Widows (1952) features an amateur detective, Mel Bladeswell, a retired Omaha businessman who has just solved a crime and is relaxing at a resort with a friend, Chet. His active imagination in high gear, Mel becomes fascinated with three widows staying at the resort. Could the widows connect to a triple murder? This novel contains a great deal of subtle humor, and the three widows are fascinatingly odd characters. Both of these engaging tales evoke the post-WWII era vividly. — Wes Lukowsky, Booklist

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  • PublisherStark House Press
  • Publication date2019
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  • ISBN 13 9781944520809
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  • LanguageEnglish
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