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To escape poverty, a doctor blackmails a desperate patient In the far reaches of Queens, a doctor struggles to maintain his practice. Milton Krop sees patients in his apartment's bedroom, which means he dresses in the bathroom and sleeps in the living room, trying to keep up appearances while providing for two children. Krop is strong as an ox, but poverty is suffocating, and if he doesn't escape soon, he'll wither and die. He's about to find a...
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Haunted by a vengeful ghost, a woman is forced to find a killer It's been nine weeks since Myra was murdered, and Elizabeth Tregillis is still seeing her ghost. After six years working as that horrible woman's secretary, it's no wonder she can still hear her insults and feel every scar left by the emotional abuse. Elizabeth has long dreamed of Myra being out of her life, but why won't Myra stay dead? Why won't she go to hell where she belongs?...
3) The Nanny
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Two years after killing his younger brother, an eight-year-old confronts a menacing nanny
In the High House School for Disturbed Children, the windows are narrow, the shadows are dark, and the secrets can be deadly. Unable to cope with his guilt, Joey Fane has been here ever since the afternoon when his little brother wouldn't leave him alone in the bathroom-the day that Joey cracked a block across his Ralphie's head and left him to bleed. Two...
4) The Stand-In
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A deranged failed actor plots revenge against a Hollywood starlet Desmond stands in a grotty flat on the outskirts of London, trying to decide between methods of revenge. He drags the lipstick across his mouth, slips into the pair of stockings, and finds the dress fits even better than he expected. It's been a long time since Des wore drag, when his uncanny ability to imitate Hollywood icon Coral Reid won him renown across the French Quarter, but...
5) The Innocent
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Living in a dead woman's shadow, a young bride fights to stay sane After years of rotten luck with men, Marjorie thinks Charles Carter is a miracle. He's dashing, urbane, and so terribly passionate-until his heart is snatched away by another woman, leaving Marjorie alone and expecting a child. The desertion is unbearable, but then there's a stroke of luck: The first Mrs. Carter drops dead, and Marjorie steps right into her place. Now she has everything...
6) The Motive
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After an evening with a movie star, a magazine editor is found murdered Shirley Kolp finds the movie star sleeping in the park. Even before he speaks a word, she recognizes Gavin More-a Hollywood A-lister reduced to spending the night on a New York park bench. Feeling compassionate, she invites him to come up to her apartment and get out of the rain-for a cup of coffee and a place to sleep, nothing more. Gavin has just bedded down when the door...
7) Hanno's Doll
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A larger-than-life actor is caught in a web of murderous lies Hanno Dietrich awakes in a hospital bed, certain the crisis has passed. His hulking body is as weak as a beached whale, but the greatest actor of his generation feels his strength returning. So why won't they let him leave? A man comes to see him and, rather embarrassedly, tells the star that a body has been found in his bomb shelter-a young boy with a broken neck. Dietrich chuckles,...
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