Follow That Blonde



BEAUTY BLOOD. AND BULLETS...

He looked just the way an artist is supposed to look. Eyes softly passionate, like black velvet. Hands long-fingered, like El Greco's. Lana wasn't sure whether she was more excited by the sensuality of the man or by the beauty of his paintings.

She had met Nick in Rome through an old high school acquaintance who now served as Nick's agent. Of course Bert Garr had become an agent--everyone in school had known that Bert was someone looking for easy money with minimal work. With Nick as a client, Bert was on easy street....

Until Nick's previous agent created a masterpiece of a scheme to make a fortune in fraudulent art. Then Bert was in danger of losing his meal ticket....

Nick was in danger of losing his life....

And Lana was caught in a deadly web of forgery and murder!

La Comtesse



She Was Gorgeous, Flirtatious, Scandalous -- And Perhaps A Spy.

La Comtesse was the talk of London. The gossips delighted in her every exploit. And in many she had no part.

There was someone else interested in her activities. Lewis Dashford. His mission was to find out just what La Comtesse was doing in England.

La Comtesse was immediately attracted to the charming Lord Dashford. She favored him as an escort. And Lewis was able to view his task as more pleasure than work.

But her behavior greatly puzzled him. She was an outrageous wanton in public and as chaste as a nun in private. Dashford was anxious to get to know her better and determined to uncover her secret....

Perdita



Governess Moira Greenwood's beautiful young charge, Perdita Brodie, is a high-spirited girl. She rebels against her stepmama's choice of mate and manages to get Moira and herself positions in a not-quite-shabby traveling acting troupe. While Moira cooks, her lovely cousin sings, attracting the very insistent attentions of the cold, handsome rakehell Lord Stornaway - who takes the pair for women of easy virtue! Although Moria explains the truth, the self-satisfied lord believes not a word; he's positive the two are ladies of ill repute. Moria finds him the most rude, uncivil of men and tells him so. Still, there is something about him she can't quite define that is not completely loathsome.

The Black Diamond





Sylvia Thompson, using the name Jane Bingham, became nursemaid to Bobby Palin in order to find out what had really happened to her sister, Bobby's former helper. In no time she found herself in love with her employer, suspicious of his second wife, and horrified by her sister's fate--which might have been sealed by the infamous black diamond mourning ring. Originally published by Fawcett Crest

Thick as Thieves



Eve Denver encountered Richard Dalton when she was fleeing an irate pawnbroker. Unsuspicious of Mr. Dalton's offer to secure a summer house in Brighton, and conscious of his ability to introduce her to the polite world, she took her valuables with her. Only to find that Dalton was using her as bait to trap a burglar? Regency Romance by Joan Smith, writing as Jennie Gallant; originally published by Fawcett Crest