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Who was that masked woman? That was the question plaguing Perry Mason. No one loves a good mystery more than Mason - but being asked to represent a client who is concealing her identity, not to mention the particulars of her case, has given even the legendary legal eagle a case of ruffled feathers. Yet the intriguing cloak-and-dagger tactics have Perry hopelessly hooked. As for the silent siren behind the mask, is she heiress Byrl Gailord or penniless Adelle Hastings?

Molly Pink and the Tarzana Hookers are busy crocheting baby blankets for charity, but before long, they're tangled up in a mystery that may be their unraveling. The Hookers are a tight-knit group, but some of the members harbor secret aspirations. Adele dreams of becoming an actress, and her acting coach has filled her head with promises of a career as a crochet show host. Elise Belmont has earned her real estate license and is itching to show her first house. When the house's tenant turns up dead from a pink squirrel cocktail laced with cyanide, the Hookers could be in double treble.

There's never a dull moment for amateur sleuth Molly Pink. Without warning, her infant granddaughter has been dumped in her lap for babysitting duties, her son has reluctantly enlisted her help investigating a potential investor in his business, and now she has to manage a high-profile bookstore event for a former Hollywood columnist who's dishing the dirt in a juicy tell-all.

When the bookstore where she works closes for renovations, Molly Pink and the Tarzana Hookers hit the road for a relaxing crochet weekend in the quaint town of Pixie. The getaway comes at the perfect time for Molly, who's been asked by her former beau to help finger a thief in Pixie who's been pilfering personal items from a friend. Molly's plan is to attend a pre-wedding party at the friend's home and catch the culprit in the act, but her simple sleuthing turns deadly serious when the groom-to-be is found murdered.

It's not the dead body - Jack Leightner has seen hundred of bodies in his tour with the NYPD. It's not the dank setting - the narrow banks along Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal. So why does the sight of the fatally stabbed young man make the detective almost faint in the canal's tangled weeds? Jack doesn't understand why he becomes obsessed with this low-priority case, why he allows it to jeopardize his career and even his life. Especially since the investigation draws him exactly where he doesn't want to go: into the heart of Red Hook.

These are the dog days of August, but you won't catch the Tarzana Hookers crochet club napping. While Molly Pink knits together an idea for a new project, Miami Wilson busily converts a house she inherited into a rental property. But Miami is left shorthanded when Sloan Renner, the woman helping her clean out the house ends up dead under a pile of smelly seafood.

Behind the wheel of her hopped-up Blazer, she's the queen of the back roads. But when someone tries to kill Hot Rod and steals only black SUVs from his shop, Fortune worries that excessive horsepower is the least of the trouble that comes along with her friend's new ride. When it becomes clear that the car thieves didn't get what they were looking for the first time around and Ida Belle's vehicle becomes their next target, Fortune and Gertie are determined to protect their friend. Ida Belle is determined to protect the Blazer.

Guiding Rory through crocheting-for-beginners will have to wait, as Molly suddenly has to untangle the mysterious death of a new Tarzana Hookers member. Marianne Freeman and her live-in companion, Connie Richards, haven't exactly been gabby since they joined the Hookers, but Connie's voice is silenced permanently when she is electrocuted while walking on a wet lawn—electrified by an old radio plugged into a faulty extension cord.

Reference librarian Megan Clark has a passion for fictional crime - but when she and her fellow book group members go from reading mysteries to solving them, they discover that real-life crime is more complex than the most puzzling whodunit.

By Hook or by Crook: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the 16th of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers; it features John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. The Parajian family owns the largest oriental rug company in the US. They are having a generational battle for stock control of the company. John Putnam Thatcher solves two murders by following the money, not the emotions.

Samantha “Sammy” Kane is settling into her new life in idyllic Heartsford, Wisconsin, running her late friend Kate Allen’s craft shop, Community Craft, when one early June day, best-selling crochet author Jane Johnson visits Heartsford. Captivated by Community Craft, Jane devotes a chapter in her new book, Behind the Seams, to the store. Sammy is honored, but satisfaction quickly turns to shock when she finds Jane strangled to death - her cold hands clutching a copy of her most recently published book, with the words “THE END” raggedly scratched into the cover.

Sarah Deane takes a break from graduate school-and dreary mid-March Boston-and heads for sunny Southern Texas to join her boyfriend, Philip Lentz, on a birdwatching expedition. Philip's rare sighting of a pair of hook-billed kites gets things off to a great start. But when he ends up strangled by his binocular straps, the rest of the birders are both suspects and sitting ducks. Is the killer a member of the Hamburg Bird Club? Major "Big" Foster, who claims he also saw the kites?

Step into the shadows of H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Horror at Red Hook”, a chilling tale of urban decay, forbidden knowledge, and cosmic terror. Set in the labyrinthine streets of Brooklyn’s Red Hook, this story plunges readers into a world where human depravity intertwines with ancient sorcery. Detective Thomas F. Malone’s investigation unravels a series of dark secrets, cult rituals, and unearthly horrors hidden beneath the city’s surface.

A tale of two Armenian brothers who come to America before World War II and scrimp to buy and sell a shipment of oriental rugs. One brother dies and the other takes the company all the way up to a world leader in the category in both wholesaling and retailing. Involves family goings-on, murder, trusts, and more. John Putnam Thatcher cuts through the emotions to get to the practical money reasons for murder.

The Horror at Red Hook is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on August 1–2, 1925. Red Hook is a transitional tale, situated between the author's earlier work and the later Cthulhu Mythos. Although the story depicts a sinister cult, this cult offers a conventionally occult devil-worshipping threat, rather than the cosmic threat depicted in his later work. Living in poverty in the slum of Red Hook at the time of writing, Lovecraft was at this time urgently attempting to widen his markets in the pulp magazines.

廃人同然となって療養中の刑事トマス・F・マロウン。このような状態になったのは、人種入り混じるニューヨークのレッド・フック地区で起こった奇妙で説明の付かない怪事件のためである。謎につぐ謎の果て、強制捜査に踏み込んだマロウンを待ち受けたものとは!?ホラーの奇才H・P・ラヴクラフトによる短編作品。 我々の周囲には、神聖なる誓いがあるのと同様、邪悪なる誓いというものも存在する。私の考えでは、我々が生活をしているのは未知なる世界であり、その地には洞窟があり、影があり、また薄闇の住人もいる。人が時として進化の道筋を逆行することもあろうし、恐ろしい言い伝えはまだ死んでいないと私は信じている。 アーサー・マッケン…。

Brother vs. brother in old Bombay. A tiger, you know! An announcement is made that TV-Radio Life magazine has named the program, the finest radio crime series of 1953. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders, tells another true story of crime. Set in 1856 in India, it is listed in Thomas Hyland’s files as How Supan Got the Hook Outside Bombay.