Synopsis
NO BONES ABOUT IT:
The Peckhams and the Wests keep their loves and hates strictly in the family. Mattie Peckham is the keeper of the secrets, and takes great delight in tormenting everyone with them. Her brother Virgil West and his wife Charlotte live next door with their daughter Louise and her husband, Ralph Ogden. Ralph’s secret involves the suicide of his first wife twelve years before. Then there is Duncan West, just returned from years spent living in Europe. His secret is hidden in a youthful letter he wrote Mattie years ago. Could it have anything to do with the mysterious blonde who moves in next door? When second cousin Janet comes to visit, she finds herself included in Mattie’s cruel sport—but for Mattie Peckham, that sport is about to end.
COLD BED IN THE CLAY:
Audrey Adriance and her husband Don move to the university town where he has been recently employed. They are welcomed into the neighborhood by next-door Professor Dexter and his wife Rachel, and are soon introduced to the rest of the group: Clifford Cox and his formidable wife, Beulah; the Grays, Thornton and Edna, and their daughter, Margaret; and the Dexters’ guest, Detective Eric Lund. At a party that night, Audrey discovers an undercurrent of tension, heightened by her recognition of the unsavory Mr. Cox. Or could it just be that her immediate attraction to Thornton has set her on edge? Secrets are implied here. And perhaps the biggest secret is her own and Don’s—a secret that soon leads to sudden death.
About the Author
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.
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