Book cover for Lady in Peril by Lester Dent

Lady in Peril

2013 Released
107 Pages
2-3 Hours
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MysteriousPress.com/Open RoadISBN 9781453292587

A couple's dogged pursuit of a killer leads them to a deadly head-to head with a powerful organization David "Grocer" Jones made newspaper headlines for exposing a food pricing racket and testifying before a state senate committee. When he dies in a mysterious car crash, clearing his name becomes a family affair. His sister, Gabriella, and her husband, Loneman, are convinced that David didn't commit suicide, as the police report alleged. Loneman and David had worked together at Ploughman, the state's biggest co-op, and Loneman knows that his brother-in-law was an utterly honest man. Who would kill him for doing the right thing?   When Gabriella goes missing, it's up to Loneman to find her and solve the mystery. Not trusting the police, he'll have to navigate the government's back rooms, where poisonous secrets lie behind every door.

Lester Dent

Lester Dent (1904–1959) was born in La Plata, Missouri. In his mid-twenties, he began publishing pulp fiction stories, and moved to New York City, where he developed the successful Doc Savage Magazine with Henry Ralston, head of Street and Smith, a leading pulp publisher. The magazine ran from 1933 until 1949 and included 181 novel-length stories, of which Dent wrote the vast majority under the house name Kenneth Robeson. He also published mystery novels in a variety of genres, including the Chance Molloy series about a self-made airline owner. Dent’s own life was quite adventurous; he prospected for gold in the Southwest, lived aboard a schooner for a few years, hunted treasure in the Caribbean, launched an aerial photography company, and was a member of the Explorer’s Club.

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