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Detective Book Club: Death wish; Appointment with yesterday; The Champagne killer
Detective Book Club Death wish Appointment with yesterday The Champagne killer Author:Brian Garfield, Celia Fremlin, Hugh Pentecost 1: Death wish by Brian Garfield (1972): At last Paul Benjamin knew what was meant by that empty phrase "crime in the streets". But it was too late to do anything about it, too late to escape. His wife was dead...his daughter destroyed...and the police were unable to do a thing. So Paul Benjamin took the only course open to him if he was to retai... more »n his sanity...he bought a gun and he began to use it; 2: Appointment with yesterday by Celia Fremlin (1972): Oh, it was a marriage of convenience for both of them, and nobody would claim any different. At the beginning, it wasn't bad, even a good bargain. But then his behavior started changing, becoming erratic...making her his prisoner in that dark basement flat..threatening her...accusing her of trying to poison him. Finally it became unbearable, and she had to break loose...even if she had to kill him to get away! 3: The Champagne killer by Hugh Pentecost (1972): Only five people in the world knew how Beverly Trent really died..and what really happened at that wild champagne party at Johnny Sand's place. And somebody was blackmailing Johnny Sands with that knowledge to the tune of 100,000.00 a year. But then, one by one, those in the know started to die..and each time it looked very much as if Johnny Sands himself was the killer.« less