{"product_id":"9781899000821-cross-marks-the-spot","title":"Cross Marks the Spot","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStories of Crime \u0026amp; Detection Vol 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eI didn’t mean to kill him!’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStories of Crime \u0026amp; Detection Volume Six\u003c\/em\u003e contains a full-length novel and a novelette.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCross Marks the Spot\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003e Actress Cicely Foster is invited to movie mogul Jacob Singerman’s flat to discuss a role in a ‘talkie’. Singerman makes advances on Cicely and she fights him off, striking his head in a struggle.  Reporter Julian Mendoza, ‘the bloodhound of Fleet Street,’ sees Cicely flee the building, and discovers the mogul murdered. Cicely’s blood-spattered glove and opened purse are at the scene of the crime and he tracks her down. It looks bleak for Cicely…but for the small matter of the corpse having been found with a bullet between his eyes. Mendoza’s investigation leads him to Colossal Pictures and the world-famous director Gustav Von Blon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Sundial Drug Mystery\u003c\/strong\u003e   During a stormy night, three actors are travelling to the Norwich Theatre when their car breaks down. They arrive outside a deserted mansion and force their way in.  A series of mysterious events ratchet up the tension, and the trio become aware they have trespassed into a hornet’s nest of mystery and intrigue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJAMES JACK RONALD \u003c\/strong\u003e(1905-1972) was a prolific writer of pulp fiction, mystery stories and dramatic novels. Raised in Glasgow, Ronald moved to Chicago aged seventeen to ‘earn his fortune’, later returning to the UK to pursue a writing career. His early works were serializations and short stories syndicated in newspapers and magazines around the world. Ronald wrote under a number of pseudonyms, including Michael Crombie, Kirk Wales, Peter Gale, Mark Ellison and Kenneth Streeter among others. Several books were adapted into films, including \u003cem\u003eMurder in the Family \u003c\/em\u003e(1938), \u003cem\u003eThe Witness Vanishes \u003c\/em\u003e(1939), and \u003cem\u003eThe Suspect \u003c\/em\u003e(1944).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57676531237238,"sku":"9781899000821","price":16.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_35400965.jpg?v=1776176715","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781899000821-cross-marks-the-spot","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}