19 títulos para "Hulbert Footner"

The Adventures of Madame Storey

Footner, Hulbert

"She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to prim up their lips. . . ." So we are introduced to t...

The Adventures of Madame Storey

Footner, Hulbert

"She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to prim up their lips. . . ." So we are introduced to t...

The House with the Blue Door (an Amos Lee Mappin Mystery)

Footner, Hulbert

Sandra Cassells, a rich widow, has set up a home for ex-convicts, but her good intentions create a boiling cauldron of trouble, as passion, jealousy, and manipulation lead to murder. Amos Lee Mappin has no difficulty finding suspects and motives-and it quickly becomes obvious that no one is outside...

The Nation's Missing Guest (an Amos Lee Mappin Mystery)

Footner, Hulbert

Sheik Ahmed bin Said arrives in the United States with his British bride-to-be and her overbearing mother, amid political machinations between France and Britain as they jostle for control of his country, Shihkar, and plotting by his devious stepbrother. Ahmed asks his old Oxford chum, Luke Imbrie,...

The Adventures of Madame Storey

Footner, Hulbert

"She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to prim up their lips. . . ." So we are intro...

The Death of a Celebrity (an Amos Lee Mappin Mystery)

Footner, Hulbert

At least five people wished Gavin Dordress, the playwright, dead the night of his ill-starred party. It was that night Gail Garrett and Bea Townley quarreled openly for the leading role in his new play-which no one had read. The next morning he was found shot to death, a chessman imprinted on his fo...

Who Killed the Husband? (an Amos Lee Mappin Mystery)

Footner, Hulbert

Jules Gartrey, a prominent banker, is killed in his apartment and the police have Al Yohe in their sights. Crime writer and occasional detective Amos Lee Mappin finds himself corralled into investigating by his staff and Yohe's young bride. Mappin soon finds that this there are plenty of suspect...

The Adventures of Madame Storey

Footner, Hulbert

"She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to prim up their lips. . . ." So we are introduced to t...

Unneutral Murder (an Amos Lee Mappin mystery)

Footner, Hulbert

Criminologist Lee Mappin and assistant travel to Portugal during WWII to distribute a new secret code for the Allies and to help on the Underground Railroad smuggling freedom-loving Germans out of Nazi Germany. But the Gestapo has spies everywhere, and investigation of a murder close to home is hind...

The Mystery of the Folded Paper (an Amos Lee Mappin Mystery)

Footner, Hulbert

Fin Corveth's friend Nick is robbed, and an emerald locket is stolen. Murder soon follows, and the only clue to motive is a folded piece of blank paper. Dark clouds are gathering and threaten to envelope Nick's young ward, Mariula. Fin brings in mystery writer Amos Lee Mappin, as it becomes...

The Adventures of Madame Storey

Footner, Hulbert

"She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to prim up their lips. . . ." So we are introduced to t...

The Adventures of Madame Storey

Footner, Hulbert

"She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to prim up their lips. . . ." So we are intro...