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TOO MANY BONES When Kay Ellis is offered the job of assistant anthropologist at the Henry Proutman Museum, she is at first excited to have a fulltime, well-paying job in a new town. But things turn sour when she meets the museum s owner, Zaydee Proutman, the aging and self-centered widow of the museum s founder. Zaydee has her sights set on Kay s supervisor, Dr. Gordon, as husband number two, and sees Kay as nothing more than competition. Even the director, Alpheus Harvey, seems to look at her askance he had expected a K. Ellis, not a Kay Ellis. In fact, the only encouragement Kay receives is from Alice Barton, the museum s librarian. So when Zaydee disappears one dark night, why does the sheriff think Kay has something to do with it .? BLOOD FROM A STONE Susan Kent has come to France to explore caves. She has no more ulterior motive than to search for ancient archeological treasures. So why does it seem that the locals are so suspicious? First there is Marc, mysterious son of the elderly Comte de l'Arize. Her digging assistant, Jean-Marie, is certainly no open book either. Nor is the Englishman, Sir Cyril, who claims to be just as interested in archeology as Susan, but refuses to get involved in any actual discussions. The school teachers, M. Dumas and his wife, seem outright hostile. Even her companion, Neva, is acting like someone with a secret. When she almost plummets into a cave well, she wonders if it is just an accident. Or could it be that someone is actually trying to kill her?

Ruth Sawtell Wallis was born March 15, 1895 in Springfield, Massachusetts. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1919 with a degree in English, then went on to graduate studies in anthropology, traveling to France on a research fellowship. She returned to a position in the anthropology department at the University of Iowa, followed by a sociology professorship at Hamline University, but after marrying Wilson Wallis in 1931 was dismissed due to the university s policy of not hiring two employed academics in the same family. Wallis began writing mysteries in 1943, penning five of them in the next seven years. After moving to Connecticut with her family, she became a sociology lecturer at Annhurst College in 1956, and eventually became a full professor before retiring in 1974. Wallis died on January 21, 1978 in South Woodstock, Connecticut.