Two Complete Novels of Women Facing Unrelenting Terror…. by “Sebastian Blayne,” the brilliant detective and Broadway playwright
HOLIDAY IN HELL
The story of a passion that knew no law…
Every time Moira tried to flee from the past, there was a paralyzing terror, the spectre of evil to torture her. Every loving embrace, every kiss, was under the shadow of death. Someone wanted her dead…each attempt had failed so far, but soon the killer would get it right.
Moira’s only hope is Sebastian “Neddy” Blayne… the flamboyant, wealthy, pampered bon vivant… famous playwright, author and brilliant detective.
Blayne is equal parts Nero Wolfe, Simon Templar and Hercule Poirot… and he is aided in his adventures by his bald, Italian valet Beppo, his red-headed secretary Maggie, and his French poodle Misty…and the ever-diligent NYPD homicide detective Simon Fennelley.
But can he save her…and himself… from a holiday in hell?
This book was previously published under the title Gay Ghastly Holiday.
TERROR IN THE NIGHT
“A tense, psychological novel of suspense, written in a brittle, sophisticated manner that will keep the reader in a state of fascination.” Pensacola News-Journal
Sebastian “Neddy” Blayne is a flamboyant, wealthy, pampered bon vivant… famous playwright, author and a brilliant detective. Blayne is equal parts Nero Wolfe, Simon Templar and Hercule Poirot…and he is aided in his adventures by his bald, Italian valet Beppo, his red-headed secretary Maggie, and his French poodle Misty…and the ever-diligent NYPD homicide detective Simon Fennelley. But his latest case hits very close to home.
His red-haired secretary Maggie is about to marry Curtis Martel, heir to one of the town’s oldest families. But the Martel house reeks of something darker than wedding nerves: a long-ago “suicide” with missing evidence, a possessive mother, a manipulative doctor—and a groom who may be dangerously unstable. When Curt survives a savage “accident,” Blayne must answer the question Maggie cannot: is she marrying a victim… or a psychopathic killer? And will Blayne expose the truth before she dies—or he does?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
“Sebastian Blayne” was the pseudonym that writer Jan Huckins adopted for two crime novels written in the early 1950s. She was born in 1911 in Oklahoma City, where her parents owned the Huckins Hotel (her mother later jumped to her death from the 8th floor in 1949). She wrote freelance articles for newspapers and magazines and ghost-wrote the scripts (for writer Irma Phillips) for the popular 1942 radio serial “Lonely Woman,” which she also novelized. In 1959, she co-authored the novel Face of My Assassin under her own name with Carolyn Weston. Huckins died in Santa Monica, California in 1981.
Jan Huckins, Sebastian Blayne /
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