Charlotte Armstrong
Dream Of Fair Woman

Who was she, this beautiful girl who fell into a deep sleep as soon as she checked into the Los Angeles boarding house? Was she an heiress, starlet, or religious mystic? When the story hit the newspapers, three people claimed she was three different women. Matt Cuneen, intrigued by the mystery of this modern sleeping beauty, decides to investigate for himself. Painstakingly following a tenuous thread of clues back to the girl's past, he makes some startling discoveries involving mistaken identity, greed and murder.

• Charlotte Armstrong wrote mainly mystery stories, publishing novels and short stories under this name and others.

Gerald Hammondn
Dread Game

Keith Calder, itinerant gunsmith and shooting instructor, is also a rascal with a total disregard for the law and a skilled poacher of birds of both varieties. Calder is a guest at a shoot in the Scottish Borders when one of the syndicate members dies - apparently by accident, but a bullet is found in his body.Calder has a personal interest in the case, which deepens when the brother of his current girlfriend is arrested and charged with the murder. Calder begins to make his own enquiries but he and Molly find themselves in danger.

Anthea Fraser
Pretty Maids All In A Row

Jessica Randal expected to be bored as she accompanied her biographer husband to the country for a month's research, since her leg was in plaster following an accident. Soon she learned they were renting the house of a murder victim -when the body of the missing owner was found, with a nursery rhyme tucked into her pocket. There was an rapist at large who forced his terrified victims to recite nursery rhymes. All the villagers in Westridgeseemed at risk and Jessica wondered how well she really knew her new husband. Chief Inspector Webb and Sergeant Jackson pit their wits against a cunning adversary. The innocent world of nursery rhymes has been contaminated . . .

• Anthea Fraser has written many novels and continues to produce new titles. Pretty Maids all in a Row features the detective work of David Webb.