The Frightened Ladies.

BEN BENSON

Publication: MS Mill Co and William Morrow and Co, 1960, New York

First edition. Review copy. Former owner's name on front fly-leaf and former owner's name embossed on half-title page, else fine in dust jacket with light wear to spine ends lightly soiled on the rear panel. Two novelettes, Lady In Hiding, originally appeared in "The Saturday Evening Post" in 1950 under the title The Frightened Lady, and Lady With A Past was first published in "Bluebook Magazine" in 1951 under the title Spell Of Evil. Lady In Hiding is set in Newton, Masschusetts as a young man courts a young woman, and on the day they were to be married, the prospective groom finds a strange girl, unmistakeably dead, in his fiancee's apartment, and she has disappeared. Lady With A Past is about a man who hires a mysterious young woman as his secretary, and through a startling incident they both are plunged into a world of blackmail, violence, and murder.

Inventory Number: 16377