She Got What She Asked For: Stories of Crime & Detection Volume 12 - Softcover

Ronald, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1899000984 ISBN 13: 9781899000982

Publisher: Moonstone Press, 2025

Synopsis

This final volume of the James Ronald series contains a full-length novel, She Got what She Asked For, a swift moving American story of detection set in New York, and a novella, The Lonely Man, set in Scotland.

She Got What She Asked For Up-and-coming architect Nick Abott married Claire, a beautiful but avaricious woman. The marriage is an unhappy one and Nick becomes a penniless drunk.  He goes to visit Claire to discuss a divorce, but is hit from behind on her doorstep.  When Nick awakens inside the apartment, Claire is dead and his fingerprints are on pistol laying beside her body.   It is down to an unconventional detective team to prove Nick innocent by fair means or foul.

The Lonely Man   Actress Deborah Vail is driving from London to Garnock, Scotland to visit a cousin.  A flat tyre on a lonely stretch of road leads her to the secluded home of a mysterious artist, Andrew Garvin, a man shunned by a whole community who suspect him of murdering his wife.  Deborah rapidly finds herself in a mystery of prejudice and intrigue.

About this title

About the Author

JAMES JACK RONALD (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 Murder in the Family (1938), The Witness Vanishes (1939), and The Suspect (1944).

Edition details

• Publisher: Moonstone Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1899000984
• ISBN 13: 9781899000982
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Verner Chris