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Last year, with the memory of Amber's sales still green in her publisher's bank account, Kathleen asked a whopping $50,000 advance for her second novel, Star Money. The publisher (Macmillan) regretfully declined. So did another big publishing house. Kathleen finally talked Ap-pleton-Century-Crofts into forking over the huge advance...
...MYSTERY OE THE SINGING WALLS? William Averill Stowell?Ap pleton ($2.00). A young engineer comes down from Alaska to marry an heiress. In Manhattan, going to me her guardian, the source of her wealth the engineer encounters him drugged and near death in his automobile before his house. Detectives are called. In their presence and that of his family the guardian, about to revive, is shot dead. No one sees the murderer. The search amid exciting intrigue continues all night in a house guarded by a cordon of detectives. Towards morning the murderer is discovered and the book ends...
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