No Fury [alt. title: Murdered One by One]
- London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1936
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1936. Very Good. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's light blue cloth lettered in black; 328pp.; five leaves of illus. Slightly sun faded spine, cover with some fading and soiling, tapped corners. Clean interior with sound binding and no signs of foxing.
By Francis Beeding (pseud. John Leslie Palmer) comes a tale of murder and suspense.
Valerie Beauchamp, alias Vera Brown, is a successful novelist of trashy romance novels who has recently found love in the form of a mysterious paramour who has swept her off her feet with his love letters. However, Valerie has just found out that her suitor is not only not a real person, but a joke concocted by her so-called friends.
To get back at them Valerie decides to add a tontine to her will, the final survivor to inherit a fortune in the end. But before Valerie can enact her plan she is found brutally murdered. And soon after her former friends find themselves the next targets.
Released in the US under the title "Murdered One by One
By Francis Beeding (pseud. John Leslie Palmer) comes a tale of murder and suspense.
Valerie Beauchamp, alias Vera Brown, is a successful novelist of trashy romance novels who has recently found love in the form of a mysterious paramour who has swept her off her feet with his love letters. However, Valerie has just found out that her suitor is not only not a real person, but a joke concocted by her so-called friends.
To get back at them Valerie decides to add a tontine to her will, the final survivor to inherit a fortune in the end. But before Valerie can enact her plan she is found brutally murdered. And soon after her former friends find themselves the next targets.
Released in the US under the title "Murdered One by One