Date with Death
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'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald Tribune
Ronnie and Ruth, a young couple engaged to be married, are shot dead. Someone hated their guts so bad he reloaded and pumped nine shots into their car.
Maddox was stymied. Why should anyone kill two nice, respectable young people? Who was the funny man playing practical jokes all over the neighbourhood? And what was the band of American Nazis doing with an arsenal of deadly weapons?
Dell Shannon
Dell Shannon is the pseudonym of Elizabeth Linington. Barbara "Elizabeth" Linington (1921-1988) was an American novelist and mystery writer. She was one of the first women to write in the style of a police procedural. Linington wrote fiction under the pen names Anne Blaisdell, Lesley Egan, Egan O'Neill, and Dell Shannon as well as her own name. Her first mystery novel, Case Pending, was published in 1960, under the pseudonym Dell Shannon.
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