Motive in Shadow
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The Manning Company is a big business, but although it was headed by Claire Manning, the founder's widow, before her death, her son John had been running the firm for many years and was the undisputed successor. So why did Claire leave almost everything to her third cousin, whom no one associated with the firm has ever heard of?
Enter Jesse Falkenstein, who is launched into an investigation of Claire Manning's past - and a litany of treachery, fraud, blackmail, abortion, impersonation and sudden death.
'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald Tribune
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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