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People had always liked Louise Peete. In 1919 her soothing manner had attracted a wealthy old Los Angeles oilman named Jacob C. Denton. She leased his house, and agreed to let him stay on in it. Soon she was using his car, paying his bills, handling his business with bankers. On the night of June 1, 1920, after months of happy companionship, Jake Denton disappeared. Weeping, Louise Peete helped police in a fruitless hunt for clues. Then she sadly sublet his house and went to Denver, where, she said, her second husband, one Richard Peete, was divorcing...
Jake is Home. Mulling over Denton's strange disappearance, detectives had the house searched again. Finally they found a neatly plastered crypt under the basement stairs. In it was Jake Denton's body, shot in the back...
Louise Peete was arrested, charged with murder. She kept her calm assurance. At the trial, she did not testify. An all-male jury was moved to sympathy, even after hearing that she had forged Jake Denton's name on checks. When they convicted her of murder, they recommended a life sentence instead of death...
...bank teller challenged the signature of the vanished Margaret Logan on a check. Police questioned Louise, as they had 24 years before. Detectives searched the house, as they had searched Jake Denton's. The cellar floor was untouched. But near an avocado tree in the backyard they found a mound of earth. Inside was the body of Margaret Logan. She had been shot in the back...
MAIDEN VOYAGE - Denton Welch -Fischer ($2.75). A 17-year-old protege of Poetess Edith Sitwell writes precociously of his truancy, his travels and adventures on the Continent and in China, and such bizarre escapades as his walk through a city's streets at midnight disguised as a woman...