Black Cat Detective Series No. 6, Crestwood Publishing (1943). Digest size. Cover Art by Hoffman
"Death Thumbs A Ride" by Jean Lilly
From the blurb inside the front cover:
As Robertus Love, Literary Editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat said of Jean Lilly: "She has a tale to tell and she tells it with such skill in creating suspense and suspicion that you never slump in your seat."
Written with charm and luminosity, DEATH THUMBS A RIDE is a story for the aristocracy of mystery readers who prefer their murders with amazingly interwoven yet plausible plots, with original backgrounds, clever and charming characterizations, intriguing personalities, and subtly sustained suspense.
Miss Lilly's characters are always people of charm, culture and cultivation. In this case the cast is made up of Senators, Governors and District Attorneys and their wives -- all on holiday -- for this is no political book. The scene is laid in the Adirondacks and takes in such varied places as the Governor's mansion, the gardener's cottage, and a tourist camp. It was in the latter that the first strange death occurred -- a young woman -- of what at first seemed to be acute gastritis.
Then a young gardener was found dead in the road -- apparently a victim of a hit and run driver. And the same night that these semi-suspicious deaths occurred the famous "Leydecker Diamond" was stolen. This was enough to set District Attorney Perkins to wondering, and from the moment he begins to investigate these matters the story moves with an inexorable drive to the smashing climax.
Black Cat Detective Series No. 6, Crestwood Publishing (1943). Digest size. Cover Art by Hoffman
"Death Thumbs A Ride" by Jean Lilly
From the blurb inside the front cover:
As Robertus Love, Literary Editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat said of Jean Lilly: "She has a tale to tell and she tells it with such skill in creating suspense and suspicion that you never slump in your seat."
Written with charm and luminosity, DEATH THUMBS A RIDE is a story for the aristocracy of mystery readers who prefer their murders with amazingly interwoven yet plausible plots, with original backgrounds, clever and charming characterizations, intriguing personalities, and subtly sustained suspense.
Miss Lilly's characters are always people of charm, culture and cultivation. In this case the cast is made up of Senators, Governors and District Attorneys and their wives -- all on holiday -- for this is no political book. The scene is laid in the Adirondacks and takes in such varied places as the Governor's mansion, the gardener's cottage, and a tourist camp. It was in the latter that the first strange death occurred -- a young woman -- of what at first seemed to be acute gastritis.
Then a young gardener was found dead in the road -- apparently a victim of a hit and run driver. And the same night that these semi-suspicious deaths occurred the famous "Leydecker Diamond" was stolen. This was enough to set District Attorney Perkins to wondering, and from the moment he begins to investigate these matters the story moves with an inexorable drive to the smashing climax.