Synopsis
DEATH OF AN INTRUDER
Miss Allison has been taking care of everyone else all her life. After the death of her aunt, it is time for her to take care of herself. So she buys a nice little house, fixes it up just the way she wants it, and settles down to her cozy, single life. Then there is a knock at the door. The woman on the doorstep seems fairly ordinary—just like any other middle-aged woman, just like herself, in fact—but after introducing herself as Miss Withers, the woman walks right in. And spends the night. And the next. In fact, nothing Miss Allison says makes the least impression on Miss Withers. And nothing she can do will budge her. Miss Withers is here to stay, taking over Miss Allison’s life one room at a time. And that’s when Miss Allison decides that her only solution is murder.
TWICE SO FAIR
The young man who appears at Rosalind’s door is in a panic. Something terrible has happened. He leads her to a campus studio apartment, where her husband Matthew lies dead next to the body of a student, Jeanette Sloan. They have apparently been asphyxiated by gas. Rosalind is stunned. What is her husband doing with this young girl? Were they having an affair? Did he love her? The death is deemed an accident, but now there is a stranger standing in the shadows outside her house, watching her. He enters her house. Soon, Rosalind is listening to his story, the tale of an abandoned orphan and the girl he loved. And she realizes that the mystery of her husband’s death is only the beginning…
About the Author
Nedra Tyre was born October 6, 1912, in Offerman, Georgia. She graduated with a master’s degree from Emory University and soon found employment as a social worker, also holding jobs during her lifetime as a librarian, clerk, book reviewer, charity worker and an advertising copy writer. Tyre had been writing since adolescence, and her stories began to appear in print in the early 1940s. Her first hardback was a 1947 story collection, Red Wine First, a series of monologues based on her social work. This was followed by Tyre’s first mystery novel, Mouse in Eternity, in 1952. She produced five more mysteries, but found herself without a publisher after her final novel in 1971, and returned to the short form in digests like Ellery Queen’s and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazines. Tyre lived most of her life in Richmond, Virginia, and died there on July 11, 1990.
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