The Tooth and the Nail / The Wife of the Red-Headed Man (Paperback or Softback)

Ballinger, Bill S.

ISBN 10: 1951473027 / ISBN 13: 9781951473020

Published by Stark House Press 4/27/2020, 2020

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The Tooth and the Nail / The Wife of the Red-Headed Man.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Tooth and the Nail / The Wife of the Red-Headed Man (Paperback or Softback)
• Publisher: Stark House Press 4/27/2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1951473027
• ISBN 13: 9781951473020
• Binding: Paperback or Softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 0.76 pounds
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

THE TOOTH AND THE NAILAs the trial begins, a man stands accused of murder. There is no body, but all the signs of a body’s disposal are in evidence. When the police search the accused man’s house, they find traces of blood in the bathroom, and a hastily-cleaned up furnace room, where it appears a body had recently been burned—there is burnt part of a leg bone, a false tooth, and off in a corner, the end of a finger. And the man’s chauffeur, who appears to have been blackmailing him, is clearly missing, now presumed dead. The prosecutor is presenting a very good case. Every indication points to murder. The defense lawyer is doing what he can, but his client’s cause appears to be hopeless. Only one man knows what really happened, and he’s the victim. THE WIFE OF THE RED-HAIRED MANWhen Hugh Ronan escapes prison and returns to his first love, Mercedes, he finds her married to another man. Turner has no intention of giving up his wife and brandishes a gun to make his point. But it’s Turner who is killed, and now Ronan and Mercedes are on the run. Mercedes could have stayed and escaped the murder charge, but she makes her choice to help her red-haired love escape. Cashing out her bank account and taking her jewels with her, the two of them leave New York. But Turner had his fingers in a lot of political pies, and important people want this killing solved. Everyone figures that it must have been Mercedes who shot her husband. Only one city detective figures that there is someone else involved. Now the hunt is on.

About the Author

Bill Sanborn Ballinger was born on March 13, 1912, in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and was educated at the University of Wisconsin. He worked in radio and advertising in the early 1940s. Ballinger wrote 81 radio scripts, then turned to writing novels in 1948, eventually producing about 30 books, including the Joaquin Hawks series. He received the Geneva Grand Master Award for Portrait in Smoke and was nominated for an Edgar in 1958 for The Longest Second. Ballinger also wrote at least 150 teleplays, including scripts for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Kolchak: The Night Stalker and Ironside. In the late 1970s, he became an associate professor of writing at the California State University Northridge in Los Angeles. Ballinger passed away on March 23, 1980, in Tarzana, California.